The Experience of Christ

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Originally Posted by Igzy

If someone says "I experienced Christ" and you ask "How?" and they can't be more specific, then you know they have a problem. But if someone says "I experienced Christ" and you say "How?" and they say "I enjoyed his loving presence." Or "I felt he wanted me to give money to a poor family." Then in that case, what's the real problem with the term?

I don't have a problem with the term and I'm not fuzzy. ....etc....

"The experience of Christ" is to me just a catch-all phrase. I don't see anything wrong with it as long as when pressed you can describe each experience in a more specific way.

Let me ask a question this way. If I come home and my wife says, "How was your day?" and I say, "Great! I had some amazing experiences of Christ today!" And she says, "Really! Tell me about it!" And I go on to tell her how I had a great quiet time where I felt the Lord speaking to me about Matthew 5:16. And how I was in the line in the grocery store and I felt the Lord nudging me to "let my light shine," and I asked a lady in line if I could pay for her groceries just to show her that Jesus loved her, and felt the Lord's strong confirmation of this act, and I drove home full of joy.

Now, is it okay to start that conversation by saying "I had some amazing experiences of Christ?" Or is that bad, too? Please enlighten me, all you experience of Christ Nazis.

The phrase 'I had an experience of Christ' imho is strictly an LC phrase, coined by Nee or Lee. I have never, ever heard any believer outside of the LC realm use that phrase but most true believers do have an experience of Christ. However they express it like this: God spoke to me. God told me. I felt the Holy Spirit lead me. I felt His Presence. The Lord opened my eyes. OR more often than not, The "Anointing" of the Lord was all over me today, meaning the Power of the Holy Spirit was on them. I hear the charismatic churchers use this phrase a lot. And since that phrase is often used in the bible, I'm cool with it. Having done a study on the meaning of the Anointing, it is the biblical expression of 'having had an experience of Christ.

A couple of days ago, my friend's 16 yr old grandson told his grandma, my friend this: Grandma. I was feeling really sad today. And out of nowhere, Jesus went 'POOF' inside me and I became very happy. He really went POOF inside of me!! and I have been happy all day since then." Aww... he's really a sweet guy. Unchurched for the most part but reads his bible and prays a lot...truly loves the Lord. He has lots of 'experiences of Christ' and shares them with us all the time. He just doesn't use that catch all phrase. And neither do I. I assure you if I told my friends 'I had an experience of Christ today', they'd say ' a what????

scriptures on the anointing:
Leviticus 8:12
And he poured of the anointing oil upon Aaron’s head and anointed him, to sanctify him.

Isaiah 10:27
And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.
1 John 2:27
But the anointing which ye have received from Him abideth in you, and ye have no need that any man teach you. But as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in Him.

scriptures on 'the experience (of Christ)':

Genesis 30:27
And Laban said unto him, “I pray thee, if I have found favor in thine eyes, tarry; for I have learned by experience that the Lord hath blessed me for thy sake.”

Philippians 3:10-11
I want to know Christ and experience the mighty power that raised him from the dead. I want to suffer with him, sharing in his death, I want to know Christ and experience the mighty power that raised him from the dead. I want to suffer with him, sharing in his death,

as an fyi....
some translations use the word 'experience' a lot more than others. NLT (New Living Translation) for one. NKJV uses the word 'experience' only a handful of times.

Shalom in Christ Jesus!