[Dave]

To say that experiencing Christ has changed someone is meaningless unless there are tangible outcomes such as, for example:
1. Change in outlook of others---seeing their value or worth and dignity.
2. Caring about equality
3. Caring about the rights of others
4. Change in outlook of others who are different
5. Worldview of connectedness---understanding how we are all connected---how life is all connected
6. Tolerance and respect for others viewpoints

Unfortunately what often seems to happen to those who say they have experienced Christ is this outcome, for example:

1. Have little value of the worth or dignity of others
2. Hatred of people different then themselves
3. Intolerance of other viewpoints
4. Narrow and isolated view of the world
5. Doctrinaires

I found that my "experience of Christ" in the LC resulted in the second set of negative outcomes. I have no intention of merely dropping the LC and picking up the same set of outcomes in another fundamental church and calling it experiencing Christ. I just don't see how it is possible to say one is experiencing Christ when the primary outcome leads to rattling off the "correct" doctrines and beliefs. To me, it also doesn't mean that I get with a group of people who believe the exact same doctrines and we all experience Christ in the same way and have little toleration for other perspectives. If reading the Bible and praying leads to a change in positive outcomes in our outlook of our fellow human beings, world and other life then we have the makings of truly experiencing Christ from my perspective. There are only two commandments: love God and love our neighbor. I just don't see a lot of love coming out from those espousing that they are the true lovers of God who experience Christ. I am sure that "your" experience of Christ has changed you but what are the outcomes.