Page | 113 Christian disciples. This God is both own experience of relationship. And intensely human and intensely God loves: and congregants use their supernatural. In these churches, God is own experience of being loved by a understood as so person-like that he human as an example of the way they becomes someone to joke and argue are loved by God. But unlike learning with, someone one chats to when about time, congregants also map back. walking down the street, about the little They build up a model of God by trivial things that matter only to the interpreting out of their own familiar congregant. Coming to know God in experience into a representation shaped such a church is described as to hear by the social world of the church and the God “speak.” Dallas Willard, a beloved narrative of the sacred text, and then evangelical’s intellectual, puts it baldly: they seek to re-map their own interior that God’s face-to-face conversations emotional experience by matching it to with Moses are the “normal human life this representation. This demands God intended for us.” I conducted constant effort, continual work on the ethnographic fieldwork at a church that way one pays attention and interprets exemplifies this approach to God, a one’s experience. As an ethnographer, I Vineyard Christian Fellowship in could see three kinds of work. Chicago and then on the San Francisco First, God must be recognized as peninsula (there were eight such . . : present. What congregants learn to do is churches in Chicago and four on the . . to cherry-pick mental events out of the peninsula). For three years I went to . ; . .. everyday flow of their awareness, and to Sunday morning gatherings. I joined : : identify that moment as other than three small groups, or housegroups, each . themselves, as being of God. God was for a year; I went to conferences and ; 5 : ; . said to speak in several different ways. retreats; and I interviewed many , He spoke through the Bible, so that a congregants ca