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Build this article by Harold Netland, Professor Trinity Evangelical Divinity School,

talks about the importance of religious experiences.

And he distinguishes between ordinary daily experiences and the more unusual are dramatic experiences.

He begins the article, quote, Christians do not generally speak of having religious experiences,

but they do pray to God, meditate on Scripture, have feelings of guilt due to sin,

and then experience God's forgiveness upon repentance, worship God through song and liturgy,

hear God's voice of guidance in perplexing times, experience God's special peace during trials and so on.

All of this involves experience, end of good. So Bill, I suppose he's right.

We don't tend to label the day-to-day exercise of our faith, a religious experience.

We just call it things like our daily walk. But is he saying that that's part of the category of religious experience?

And I think Netland is quite right about that. I think that the most fundamental religious experience is the experience of the witness of the Holy Spirit in the life of a Christian.

Paul says that when we cry, Abba, Father, it is the Spirit Himself bearing witness with our Spirit that we are children of God,

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