Communion with God – an evangelical blind spot?
Various teachers have identified a lack of attention to communion with God in current evangelicalism. Richard Lovelace refers to a
‘sanctification gap among Evangelicals, a peculiar conspiracy somehow to mislay the Protestant tradition of spiritual growth and concentrate on frantic witnessing activity, sermons on John 3:16 and theological arguments over eschatological subtleties.’ (Dynamics of Spiritual Life, p232)
J.I. Packer agrees:
…‘When, however, experiential aspects of life in the Spirit come up for treatment (as distinct from convictional, volitional, and disciplinary aspects), it is a different story.