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...received your “daily Jesus”
In Sunday’s gospel Jesus declared himself to be the Bread of Life, and this image must be linked to the phrase in the Lord’s Prayer where we are told to ask for our daily bread.
Therefore we can ask ourselves where and how we get our daily Jesus.
There are plenty of preachers and teachers who may offer ways of getting your daily Jesus.
A Hallelujah gospel preacher may use music, a long guilt inducing sermon, peer pressure and psychological tricks to induce a religious emotional experience and tell you that you have “accepted Jesus” and are encountering Christ, and you may indeed have encountered Christ or you may simply have had no more than an intense subjective emotional experience.
A leader of a spiritual retreat may lead you to search for “the Christ within” and through meditation techniques and special esoteric teaching lead you to a spiritual “enlightenment”–a mountaintop experience which is your encounter with Christ.
Continued below.
Your Daily Jesus | Fr. Dwight Longenecker
In Sunday’s gospel Jesus declared himself to be the Bread of Life, and this image must be linked to the phrase in the Lord’s Prayer where we are told to ask for our daily bread.
Therefore we can ask ourselves where and how we get our daily Jesus.
There are plenty of preachers and teachers who may offer ways of getting your daily Jesus.
A Hallelujah gospel preacher may use music, a long guilt inducing sermon, peer pressure and psychological tricks to induce a religious emotional experience and tell you that you have “accepted Jesus” and are encountering Christ, and you may indeed have encountered Christ or you may simply have had no more than an intense subjective emotional experience.
A leader of a spiritual retreat may lead you to search for “the Christ within” and through meditation techniques and special esoteric teaching lead you to a spiritual “enlightenment”–a mountaintop experience which is your encounter with Christ.
Continued below.
Your Daily Jesus | Fr. Dwight Longenecker
