This article is about Experiencing Encounters with God and investigates the question: “Is Experience Prerequisite to Belief?” There is more than one answer to that question. The article will discuss these things in three different contexts of experience: Part 1: The not-yet Believer Part 2: The Believer Part 3: How God Chooses to Reveal Himself There is also an Addendum with Discussion Questions
Episodes, Encounters, & Experiences This is my personal story. It contains some episodes in my life when I encountered and experienced the God who is there and is not silent. It’s a story of finding God while still being lost and wandering in false imaginations and painful realities I created for myself. It’s a story of God drawing me – supernaturally drawing me – to Himself. And it’s a story about finding goodness, truth, and beauty in life with God
