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The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all.
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The quote says that future Christianity must be more than a name, tradition, or set of outward practices. A Christian, in this view, needs a direct and deeply personal spiritual experience—a mystical relationship with God. Without that inner experience, the speaker suggests, Christianity will lose its meaning or cease to exist as a living faith.
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