what I want to talk about this morning
is remarkable phenomenon that the people not only talk to God
but they learn to experience God as talking back
Many many Americans and many other people
are involved, as you may call, in a renewlist of spirituality
a kind of spirituality which they want to experience God intimately, personally and interactive,
they want to reach out, touch the Divine when he on earth
I want to find out how they do that.
I am anthropologist, my job is to immerse myself in
the world I come to study, and to keep observing.
so at some degree, I got a sense of what it take to become a Native
Unlike Margret Mead & Gregory Bateson were pictured here in Papua New Guinea.
I did this study in America.
I spent two years in the revivalist church in Chicago,
another two years in one of the Bay area.
I went to Sunday Morning services
I was a member of House priaire
I was in the prayer's circle
I hang out with people
I really want to know how their God have become real to them
So let me begin by asking,
who is the God in the church like this?
God is God, God is big, God is mighty, and holy and beyond.
God is also a person among people,
The Pastor in this kind of church want you to experience God
the way the earliest cycle of experience Jesus,
they walk with Jesus
they ate with Jesus,
they talk with Jesus,
He was here as a friend,
these pastors will tell you that
you should put out a cup coffe for God,
you should have a beer with God
have a walk with God, hang out do the kind of thing with God
that you get do with anyone who you want to know as a person.
He cares about all the kinds of stuff in your life.
the little stuff, where you want to go in your summer vacation
so I want to know how people interact with God
what shirt you want to wear tomorrow morning.
you can talk to him about that.
So I wanted to know how people learn to interact with God
and how they felt God speak back to them.
I knew they can learn the newcomers came to this Cu