A Critique of Practicing the Way (Part 32) - Critical Issues Commentary
A Critique of Practicing the Way - Critical Issues Commentary
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John Mark Comer claims that Christians today need to recapture the contemplative mysticism of the past or "we will not exist at all in the corrosive soil of the secular West." Comer uses Colossians 1:27 to support his mystical view of “Christ in us.” We show that Christ in us happens through the Holy Spirit at conversion and not through mysticism.
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