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Originally Posted by Sons to Glory!
Okay, thanks. According to things I've read in church history, it seems that oftentimes those who experience and speak about the indwelling Christ are called Christian Mystics. This is as if experiencing Him living in and through us is something unusual according to scriptures. Many times, I think, those who are more outwardly legal in their practice, look at someone who has freedom in Christ as different or weird.
To be sure, Christ in us is a mystery, and certainly something unseen to the eyes. Some describe this as a "mystical union." But mystical or mystic can mean a wide range of things to different people, from weird and totally unacceptable to wonderfully mysterious and awesome.
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As long as your "experience" of Christ is based on repentance and faith alone in the cross and not practice then great but if not it's good to test your indwelling spirit.
You're right, there are those that are learned in the scriptures but are without experience and understanding but then you also have those that focus primarily on experience yet because they don't properly know the scriptures are left without understanding.
The Local Churches are the latter.