The Christian Life Is More than ‘Tryin’ to Get the Feeling Again’

In the 1970s, Barry Manilow had a hit song called “Tryin’ to Get the Feeling Again,” in which he longs for the emotional intensity he once felt for his lover. He wants again the feeling “that made [him] shiver, made [his] knees start to quiver.” Now, all that is gone and all he’s left with is a sense of yearning.I wonder sometimes if much of evangelical Christianity could be summed up by the title of that song. Many of us, when we first came to faith, felt electrified by the gospel and captivate