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How to navigate conflict between institutional faith and mystical longing

My pastor says seeking direct experience of God is dangerous and I should trust scripture alone but something in me keeps reaching for that connection anyway.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The tension between mediated religion and immediate spiritual experience creates internal division.

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