"When Jesus' followers asked him to teach them to pray, he didn't ask them to divide into focus groups and look deep into their hearts. He didn't begin by getting them to think slowly through their life-experiences, to discover what types of personality each of them had, to spend time getting in touch with their buried feelings . . ." (NT Wright, Simply Christian, p. 141).
Interesting that while the Carmen Gadelica (a great source of genuine Celtic Christianity) has charms, blessings, prayers, incantations - it doesn't have the modern narcissistic obsession with self.
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