It is possible to have a religious experience and never become a Christ follower. You can enter a religious culture that will get you to jump through some hoops, so that you will be “in” or “accepted”, with the assurance that you have arrived. You may do great works. You can then spend your life without any serious attempt to follow the teachings of Jesus, without any effort to become a serious disciple, and without any intention of entering into a sanctifying solidarity with Jesus. A religious experience that does not have this end in view is an inoculation against ever being a true convert of the Lamb. A radical awakening is the cure.
“On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’” Matthew 7:22-23 (ESV)
