notes on this book
I've been waiting for someone to write this...it brings together the best of John Piper and New Mystic theology...that is, living for supernatural encounter as a means of delighting in God and enjoying Him forever.
I'm not reading it yet, but in a couple days when I get paid, I'm so there, haha.
I've only read the preface. the fact that he is a C.S. Lewis fan is good enough. This is going to be good. Loving the title.
I'm in chapter 4...John is throwing out some revelation bombs that could potentially change the church forever.
Can't wait to get into this book. John Crowders 1st book..."Miracle Works, Reformers and the New Mystics" catapulted me into RENEWAL and is my all time favorite. I expect nothing less from his new book.
Here is a raw quote. "Serving God apart from a sense of pleasure is anti-christ in nature. "Enough said, I am going to the floor now,
Page after page is confirmation and elaboration on where God has been taking me the last several months, hahaha! It's makin' me antsy for the stuff I haven't been blissed into yet.
yet another reason why I believe that "more" is never enough. more only makes us more hungry !love this book !
The Ecstacy of Loving God
John Crowder
John Crowder
Ecstasy, or extasis, is the Greek term for trance, and is linked with a pleasurable, God-given state of out-of-body experience recorded throughout the New Testament and the church age. Starting with the apostles ecstatic experiences on Pentecost, the Book of Acts further records trances in the lives of Peter and Paul. From the early church to the Christian mystics of the Middle Ages and the famous revivalists of centuries present, God s movements on the earth have always been marked by these supernatural ... read more
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