tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20184070.post115708926251140208..comments2024-01-11T10:58:30.769-05:00Comments on Jesus community: intimacy with GodTed M. Gossardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10580691315315271791noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20184070.post-1157141522256800582006-09-01T16:12:00.000-04:002006-09-01T16:12:00.000-04:00Dr. Mike,Thanks for your excellent words. You go i...Dr. Mike,<BR/>Thanks for your excellent words. You go into what intimacy with God really is.<BR/><BR/>I have been thinking in terms more of how we get there. And also impacted by my recent reading of Bonhoeffer. The righteosness (sense of rightness, or things being right), peace, joy and love that accompanies this intimacy is known by God's loved ones in Jesus. But so often we're tuned into a kind of poor substitute (feel good religion, at times; or something supplanting it). Intimacy with God, in my thought, leaves with it a limp, and a new kind of relationship than what we're accustomed to, I think.<BR/><BR/>But your words are so true and powerful. And I hope readers, as well as myself pick up on them. To see just how very much they are at the center of true intimacy with God.<BR/><BR/>Thanks much.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com