A concentration on the Spirit (as the object of worship) only leads to a pietistic “Jesusism” that is so prevalent today in the churches and among young people. People have the idea than in charismatic circles they can “experience” something of the Spirit and of Jesus in an “immediate” (unmediated) way; but as we have said, the genuine experience of faith is only given to those who patiently persevere in the Christian life. We are not questioning the fact that young people need a certain existential “experience” of Christianity in their surroundings or meetings if they are eventually to keep their faith alive. But the continual inclination to remain in the inward-looking group can be a symptom of an infantile stagnation, particularly nowadays.
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