“It’s hard to live in this world without getting cut and hurt spiritually or … emotionally, and symbolically sort of bleeding all over ourselves. Or other people get hurt and they bleed all over us because they don’t know what they’re doing either,” Dr. Ulrich says. “And so we come in [to the temple] prepared to be filled with the Spirit, to be washed and anointed as they would wash and anoint and clothe priests in the ancient temples of Israel.”
“It’s hard to live in this world without getting cut and hurt spiritually or … emotionally, and symbolically sort of bleeding all over ourselves. Or other people get hurt and they bleed all over us because they don’t know what they’re doing either,” Dr. Ulrich says. “And so we come in [to the temple] prepared to be filled with the Spirit, to be washed and anointed as they would wash and anoint and clothe priests in the ancient temples of Israel.”