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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
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