However, spirit-to-Spirit encounters with God have become much too rare among Western Christians. Since rationalism has taken over the Western world in the past few hundred years, the Church has also come under its influence and has not given the attention it should to the work of the Spirit in our lives. Therefore, we are often bound by rationalism and miss the fullness of relationship with our Father that the early Church enjoyed. Mark Virkler

In my love for the Scriptures, I had made them God rather than a book that God had written to me about other people’s experiences with Him. I had been willing to live out of the Bible, rather than out of God Himself. Mark Virkler

As I began to examine my own life, I realised that I often took antagonistic and adversarial attitudes toward people with whom I didn’t agree. I felt it was what God wanted me to do. However, finally it dawned upon me that the accuser’s stance is satan’s attitude (the word devil literally means “accuser”) and the comforter’s stance is the Holy Spirit’s position. Mark Virkler