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what I want to talk about this morning

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is remarkable phenomenon that 
the people not only talk to God

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but they learn to experience God 
as talking back

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Many many Americans and many other people

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are involved, as you may call, 
in a renewlist of spirituality

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a kind of spirituality which they want to experience God intimately, personally and interactive,

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they want to reach out, touch the Divine when he on earth

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I want to find out how they do that.

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I am anthropologist,
my job is to immerse myself in

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the world I come to study, 
and to keep observing.

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so at some degree, I got a sense of what it take to become a Native

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Unlike Margret Mead & Gregory Bateson 
were pictured here in Papua New Guinea.

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I did this study in America.

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I spent two years in the revivalist church in Chicago,

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another two years in one of the Bay area.

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I went to Sunday Morning services

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I was a member of House priaire

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I was in the prayer's circle

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I hang out with people

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I really want to know how
their God have become real to them

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So let me begin by asking,

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who is the God in the church like this?

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God is God, God is big, 
God is mighty, and holy and beyond.

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God is also a person among people,

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The Pastor in this kind of church 
want you to experience God

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the way the earliest cycle of experience Jesus,

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they walk with Jesus

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they ate with Jesus,

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they talk with Jesus,

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He was here as a friend,

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these pastors will tell you that

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you should put out a cup coffe for God,

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you should have a beer with God

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have a walk with God, hang out 
do the kind of thing with God

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that you get do with anyone who 
you want to know as a person.

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He cares about all the kinds of stuff 
in your life.

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the little stuff, where you want to go 
in your summer vacation

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so I want to know 
how people interact with God

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what shirt you want to wear 
tomorrow morning.

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you can talk to him about that.

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So I wanted to know how people learn to 
interact with God

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and how they felt God speak back to them.

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I knew they can learn 
the newcomers came to this Cu