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It's Time to Strike Out

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Our modern way of thinking has created a false dichotomy between truth and experience. We have become obsessed with the reduction of truth into facts: atomic sentences and numbers and equations that we can use as a periodic table of elements.

But this obsession holds no real power. No matter how well you know that two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen combine to form water, this fact will not help you when you are on your knees in the desert and dying of thirst.

Water is life, and your experience of consuming it is vital.

Spiritual truths exemplify this need for active participation even more deeply. A sacred text is not sacred because it reveals truth in written form. It is sacred when and only when the truth in the text connects the spirits of both reader and writer and the experience of sacred communion takes place.

Facts stripped of truth and immersive experience are lifeless at best and oppressive at worst. But when spirit meets truth - yours and the divine - you lose your mind and find your soul.

So if you're stuck in your head and dying of thirst in a land of facts, it's time to strike out on a new adventure.

Source Scripture

Matthew 7:28-29

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Twitter: @AwestruckPod Email: info@awestruckpodcast.com

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Our modern way of thinking has created a false dichotomy between truth and experience. We have become obsessed with the reduction of truth into facts: atomic sentences and numbers and equations that we can use as a periodic table of elements.

But this obsession holds no real power. No matter how well you know that two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen combine to form water, this fact will not help you when you are on your knees in the desert and dying of thirst.

Water is life, and your experience of consuming it is vital.

Spiritual truths exemplify this need for active participation even more deeply. A sacred text is not sacred because it reveals truth in written form. It is sacred when and only when the truth in the text connects the spirits of both reader and writer and the experience of sacred communion takes place.

Facts stripped of truth and immersive experience are lifeless at best and oppressive at worst. But when spirit meets truth - yours and the divine - you lose your mind and find your soul.

So if you're stuck in your head and dying of thirst in a land of facts, it's time to strike out on a new adventure.

Source Scripture

Matthew 7:28-29

Connect

Twitter: @AwestruckPod Email: info@awestruckpodcast.com

Extras

The Awestruck Podcast musical playlist (Apple I Spotify)

  continue reading

104 episodes

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