Having A Socially Plausible Identity...

is not the goal of the Christian life. The direct experience of God in Christ is found by traveling a way that is new and disconcerting because it is something that is not possible to be imagined by us before experiencing it. And even after its experience it is clearly not something that is useful or even credible to the rest of society, including those in the church who are convinced that Christian faith is propositional in nature. For those who start down this largely untraveled path it will mean putting up with incomprehensible unfulfillment of the lonely, confined, silent, obscure life of patience required to allow God time and space to act first. This is it.