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Seeing Is Believing: Experience Jesus through Imaginative Prayer is unavailable, but you can change that!

One of the most common problems with Christians in our modern secularized world is that they don’t feel the reality of Jesus. They believe in him and love him, but he somehow doesn’t seem to enter their daily lives in a real sense. Some might say, “You ought to pray more.” Others would advise, “You ought to witness more.” While this may be true, Boyd argues that you don’t get closer to God just...

show, the Bible as well as church history teach that a central way people experience the living God and are transformed is in our imaginations. For example, the apostle Paul contrasts the veiled minds of unbelievers who have been blinded by the god of this age with the unveiled minds of believers who are enabled by the Holy Spirit to see the glory of the Lord in the face of Jesus Christ (2 Cor. 3:14–4:6). As they do so, Paul says, they are “being transformed into the same image from one degree of
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