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To: My2Cents

How do you know about the life of Christ except by the pages of a book?


110 posted on 06/28/2005 10:46:32 AM PDT by Free Baptist
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To: Free Baptist
The pages of the book are like a menu. They describe the food and other items that might be consumed and enjoyed in the restaurant. The fulfillment is in the enjoyment of the food that was prepared. One can study a menu well, and go out and tell others with great accuracy about the food that is prepared at the restaurant, debating how the chef might prepare this or that item, but one doesn't go to a restaurant to read a good menu; they go to enjoy a good meal. The Bible is the menu; fellowship with Christ through His Spirit is the meal.

I know many Christians (I do not doubt their salvation) who do nothing but talk about the content of the book, and who have very little testimony of actual interaction or experience with Christ.

124 posted on 06/28/2005 10:58:24 AM PDT by My2Cents ("In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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