“My relationship with God is private.” The only problem with that statement is that, though it may accurately reflect their experience, it is not biblical. Our relationship with God is personal, but it was never meant to be private. There is a clear difference between personal and private. Some, however, live as though they are the same. Salvation is intensely personal, but God never planned for our salvation to be private. Everything in the Bible, Old Testament and New Testament, bears witness to