Friendship relates to persons and the exchanges that exist between those persons. Friendship exists in the exchanges that people make with one another. To have a personal relationship with God requires a personal exchange.
Non-Christians usually confuse evangelicals’ personal relationship with God as imagination instead of trust in someone real and knowable.
I’m worried that within evangelical Christianity we are not very clear on what we mean when we suggest to people that they need to have a “personal relationship with God.” Do we have a personal relationship with Him? Do we speak with Him? Does He speak with us? If so, in what way? How do we know...