getting closer to God

This is always a major theme in my journey...... I hopefully an desiring this more and more each day, but sometimes in a quandary just how to accomplish it??? I was doing a google search on hermeneutics, hoping to teach a sunday school class on the subject soon and was wanting to do a lil research.

Well, it struck me while perusing various articles that post-Enlightenment processes still are in play the whole divide between reason/emotion in how we can "know" God ..... plus add the entire existential twist enough to spin you in circles!!!!! Our post-modern age puts such emphasis on "experience" having a "personal encounter" with God wanting to "feel" Him and experience Him in a Martin Buber.... " I"- " Thou" type arena as opposed to knowing Him through preaching, teaching and doctrinal understanding.

Now, while I agree we need an instilling of a closeness with Him , i really wonder just how far we have gone in placing our own desires and expectations on what our relationship with Him is to be that we have buried and repressed the truth that He is God and therefore should dictate the parameters of the relationship we will share together. So many people seem to throw up their hands and say..... "I just want to love Jesus Hes all I need"...... which is very true of course but...... theology and doctrine are needed in order to qualify the validity of loving Jesus In order to know Him He needs to tell us about Himself make us aware of Him because we are finite humans unable to take on a spiritual form and see Him in a special way.

Created "In Gods Image" means many things , one thing for sure, it means we communicate we think feel and act and we do so by words in speech we dont just sit and "experience" each other we TALK Jesus and God are no different, They must talk as well in order to have a 'relationship" with us.

Hope this made sense as to the point.... any and all who come across please by all means share your thoughts cant wait to have "comments" whoohoo!!!!! :)