[Script Info] Title: [Events] Format: Layer, Start, End, Style, Name, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Effect, Text Dialogue: 0,0:00:10.18,0:00:12.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what I want to talk about this morning Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.39,0:00:15.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is remarkable phenomenon that \Nthe people not only talk to God Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.15,0:00:20.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but they learn to experience\NGod is talking back Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.12,0:00:25.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many many Americans and \Nmany other people Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are involved, as you may call, \Nin a renewalist spirituality - Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a kind of spirituality\Nwhich they want to experience God Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,intimately, personally and interactive, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they want to reach out, \Ntouch the Divine here on earth Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to find out how they did that. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am anthropologist,\Nmy job is to immerse myself in Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the world I come to study, \Nand to keep observing Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that at some degree, I got a sense of\Nwhat it take to Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,become a Native in that world. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Unlike Margret Mead &\NRev. Gregory Bateson Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were pictured here in Papua New Guinea. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I did this work in America. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I spent two years \Nin the renewalist church in Chicago, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,another two years\Nin one of the Bay area. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I went to Sunday Morning services. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was a member of House priaire. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was in the prayer's circle. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I hang out with people. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I prayed with people. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I really want to know how\Ntheir God became real to them. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So let me begin by asking, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who is the God in the church like this? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God is God, God is big, \NGod is mighty, and holy and beyond. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God is also a person among people, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Pastor in this kind of church \Nwant you to experience God Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the way the earliest cycle of experience Jesus, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They walk with Jesus. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They eat with Jesus. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They talk with Jesus, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was his friend, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These pastors will tell you that Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You should put out \Na cup of coffee for God, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You should have a beer with God Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Go for a walk with God, hang out. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do the kind of thing with God Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you get do with anyone who \Nyou want to know as a person. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He cares about all the kinds of stuff \Nin your life. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the little stuff, where you want to go \Nin your summer vacation Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what shirt you want to wear \Ntomorrow morning. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you can talk to him about that. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I wanted to know how people learn to \Ninteract with God Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and how they felt God \Nspeaking back to them. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I knew they can learn \Nthe newcomers came to this church, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they say things like: Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"God talk to me." Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and six months later they would say : Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I recognize God's voice the way I \Nrecognize my mum's voice on the phone . " Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I thought the church's teach Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and some of thoughts\Nyou really think is yours, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are really God's thoughts being given to you Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and your job is to figure out\Nwho is the God. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the way people did talk