RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE- part one

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  • RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE-Stephanie McCartney
    • The Toronto Blessing
      • can be described as "revival"
      • In this scenario there was an outpouring of the Holy Spirit
        • The blessing consisted of signs accepted by Characteristic
          • Falling and resting in the spirit
          • Holy laughter
          • Shaking and crying
          • Crunching
    • The Conversion of St Paul
      • Saul was originally a follower of the Jewish faith
        • When his brothers started to follow the New Way he 'served God' and ended up hunting them and having them killed
          • St. Stephen- the first Christian martyr
      • His conversion occurred  when he was on his way to the city of Damascus
        • And Saul said, ‘Who are you, Lord?’ And He said, ‘I am Jesus, Whom you are persecuting; but rise and enter the city, and you will be told what you are to do.’
        • Saul rose from the ground and when his eyes were opened he could see nothing
        • After spending some time with the disciples of Christ in Damascus, God called Paul to Arabia where he spent at least two years or more in the desert
        • ‘Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus who appeared to you on the road by which you came has sent me that you may regain you sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit.’
    • The enlightenment of Siddhartha Gautama
      • Siddhartha followed  path of Enlightenment
        • Became known as the Buddha or 'awakened one'.
      • Privileged life = unaware of suffering
      • 1)Sick man= aware of suffering and wants to change and escape this inevitability of death and suffering
      • 2)extreme asceticism
      • 3) followed the Middle Way- not poverty but not luxury
      • 4) Bodhi tree- meditation- enlightenment-Buddha

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