Encounter the Father
John Wesley once said, “I had even then the faith of a servant, though not that of a son.” He lamented years of being “beaten with his own staff,” anguished by his own misunderstanding of God’s place in his life. Wesley’s experience of God is far too common. Too many of us who follow Jesus still cling to a shame-based relationship with God that keeps us at arm’s distance and in constant expectatio...
John Wesley once said, “I had even then the faith of a servant, though not that of a son.” He lamented years of being “beaten with his own staff,” anguished by his own misunderstanding of God’s place in his life. Wesley’s experience of God is far too common. Too many of us who follow Jesus still cling to a shame-based relationship with God that keeps us at arm’s distance and in constant expectatio...
