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Experiencing God Outside the Box: Growing More Intimate with the Real God Kindle Edition

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“Paul Meier gives us the complete picture of how to [experience God as He truly is], spiritually, emotionally, relationally and neurologically.” —Dr. John Townsend, psychologist and coauthor of the bestselling Boundaries Series

The greatest calling we can have during our brief journey here on Planet Earth is to earnestly yearn and search, without prejudice, for an intimate relationship with the one and only true Creator God, outside the box. The vast masses of humans never get this deep and blindly believe whatever they have been taught about God, often out of fear of rejection by family or peers. Others see God as a Heavenly Version of their earthly fathers.

Paul Meier, MD, is a psychiatrist and theologian whose books have been read by over seven million people in over thirty languages all around the world, and he describes the many prejudicial mountains that must be climbed to become intimate with the real God. Dr. Meier also gives many positive ways to assist you to make that earnest search for Experiencing God Outside the Box.

“This is an amazing book! It helped me see God in ways I never saw him before and to grow closer to him. It showed me many powerful ways to overcome the prejudices of my past.” —Dr. Jean-Luc Bertrand, author and Emmy Award–winning TV producer

“Paul brings us face to face with many new facts and experiences that will hopefully enable us to re-think and ‘re-search’ our relationship with God . . . This book will certainly help many find a new and more intimate relationship with the ‘real God’ and Father of us all.” —Esly Regina Carvalho, PhD, psychologist and author

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This is an amazing book! It helped me see God in ways I never saw him before and to grow closer to him. It showed me many powerful ways to overcome the prejudices of my past. --- Dr. Jean-Luc Bertrand, author and Emmy Award winning TV producer, Paris, France

Paul Meier gives us the complete picture of how to do this, spiritually, emotionally, relationally and neurologically. --- Dr. John Townsend, Psychologist and co-author of the bestselling Boundaries Series, Los Angeles

Paul brings us face to face with many new facts and experiences that will hopefully enable us to re-think and ‘re-search’ our relationship with God. . .This book will certainly help many find a new and more intimate relationship with the ‘real God’ and Father of us all. --- Esly Regina Carvalho, Ph.D., Psychologist and author, Brazil.

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Paul Meier, MD is the author or co-author of more than 90 books that have sold more than seven million copies in more than 30 languages. He is also the founder of the national chain of nonprofit Meier Clinics. He is a graduate of the Duke University Psychiatry Residency and is also an ordained minister and graduate of Dallas Theological Seminary, where he taught for 12 years. He has traveled around the world teaching Christian Psychology, and has appeared on hundreds of national radio and television programs, including The Oprah Winfrey Show, the Tom Snyder Show, Norman Vincent Peale’s program, and on Radio Free Europe.

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What is a psychiatrist doing writing a book about experiencing God outside the box? Thousands of our Meier Clinics clients eventually ask our 100+ psychiatrists, psychologists, and therapists spiritual questions that will be addressed in this book. If you have doubts and lots of unanswered questions about God, then, in my opinion, that makes the real God who created you very happy, because you are making good use of the heart and brain he gave you when he created you in his spiritual image.

To have no doubts or questions about God is to be spiritually lazy, because you have passively accepted whatever the authorities in your environment taught you, or you are assuming that your Heavenly Father is merely a grand photocopy of your earthly father, a mistake most people make to some extent. Even your genetic makeup and brain chemistry distort your view of God, of others, of yourself, and even of life itself. You think you have a personal relationship with the real God who created this expanding universe, and you may. But your relationship might very well be with a God In The Box, with many of the influences and pat answers you have been told and passively accepted without thinking it through.

Stop and think about this concept for a moment: If you ask seven billion strangers to tell you what they think the real God of this universe is really like, you will get some views of God that are similar, but each will be uniquely somewhat different. The fact that seven billion people have seven billion differing views of God proves that not a single one of them can be completely correct. Think about that, because that also proves that your view of God as well as my own view cannot possibly be 100 percent correct and our views are certainly not 100 percent comprehensive. We only know a small fraction of what we can know about him until we spend time with him in person in Heaven.

The purpose of this book is not to take away anyone’s faith in God, but rather to assist you in the most noble and spiritually rewarding of all earthly tasks---experiencing God outside the box. This means seeing him more closely, in an accurate picture, after reading this book. It also means growing more intimate with God than you already are now while basing your relationship partially or largely on how you have been programmed to see him and know him.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00ODIC2HE
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Morgan James Faith (October 15, 2014)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 15, 2014
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 3.4 MB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 238 pages

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Has lead me on an amazing journey, sharing quotes with friends & an integral resource for growth of my job as a Christian counselor!!!

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Very well written and organized book. The content is life-changing. I wish I'd read this 40 years ago. We all think we "know God." But we all see him differently, and none of us is exactly right. Paul Meier helps normalize our ideas/feelings about God by pointing out multiple common ways we are conditioned, by our environment, parenting, culture, churchianity, etc. Anyone really interested in knowing the real God will grow and hopefully change from reading this book.

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Amazing perspective on our relationship with God!! I encourage anyone who is looking for a deeper walk with Christ to read this!!

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I agree with the theology but the psychiatrist in the author pushes in front of it in an inaccurate way. I had a great upbringing, loving father and mother and have never described God like Daddy but have always said I have two Dads. One is here for the earthly me and the other is our "real" Dad, and note I said OUR, both Daddy and me. Besides that continued reference which is not accurate for all, the book is a good reminder that we define God within our limited abilities of thought and perception. He's so much bigger than that!

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