The Problems With Experience

Christianity thrives on experience but it also tells a story about human nature that should make us very nervous about our claims to experience of God. The key thing for me in fact was a healing service during a youth group trip to North Carolina with Gil Krakhi where I felt suddenly while being prayed for, like a veil had been lifted from the universe. Just as God sometimes feels overwhelmingly present as effusing our every breath and encounter, he can also seem terrifyingly absent,. especially in our darkest hours when we need him the most.