Recitation of New Testament in Greek (original language)
Christians should really get into chanting the bible, it's known to certain magical types that artistic repetitions of sacred writings can be very powerful.
The Christians should try to upgrade their chants and get into it the way the Muslims are into Qur'an.
I see a myriad recordings of people reciting Qur'an in Arabic but finding recitations of the Bible like this seems to be quite rare.
I would argue that the Muslims are imbuing their scriptures with mystical power by chanting them daily and weekly and reading them every single year (it is considered law to read the Qur'an once a year if you are able).
Christians also need to get into prayer more from what I have seen, a lot of people were lapsed Christians were I grew up and they didn't really teach us about prayer so much in Church.
The emphasis should be on moral conduct and spiritual practice, to attain mystical power of virtue and destiny and character strength.
The science of attaining mystical power of virtue and power and character strength is becoming known to me thanks largely not to Muslims or Christians, but the Buddhist and Taoist teachers, especially people like Mantak Chia and Li Hongzhi.
Mantak Chia has written about the power of sacred sound, and the importance of repeating such sounds to physical health. (The Six Healing Tones).
It is regarded by Li Hongzhi that the development of virtue and destiny and character as well as spiritual energy (and matter) is required for the development of miraculous powers. (Falun Gong)
My own experience with these things is that they have true virtue, but I have not studied it in others.
I say however that it is possible that in these days spirituality is more developed in East Asia.
Christianity originally was very prayerful and focused on study of the scriptures and their virtuous conduct, I see that slipping in the quarters if you will and among the Youth of the West the SPIRITUAL PRACTICE has all but disappeared.
I think that I have prayed in total with only one of my friends who was a "Modern Westerner" in my whole life, an interesting prayer that was answered within 10 minutes. It was a "low power" prayer, not a major request.
I wish that more of my fellow Western youth were interested in prayerful living and working spiritual practices like meditation and reflection, sacred rituals of lighting candles, burning incense and bestowing blessings on sacred objects and practice of sacred combat.
As far as the power of sacred objects, I have for example a fine story from a Western Agnostic/Atheist about the power of the amulet of Saint Christopher, the power of prayer, and the power of Spiritual reality. This man's grandmother was a pious woman and has given it to him before she died.
He was at sea on a mission, and he was told by a voice in his head (which he identifies as being more God or Angel than an angry or evil spirit) that the ship was in great danger and he has prayed to his grandmother asking to be saved from the catastrophe, kissed the amulet of Saint Christopher, and what has happened is that there was a large wave that has struck the ship, and the ship tilted, and was basically less than .5 or 1 degree away from capsizing. To him this was a noteworthy tale, worthy of the tales of the Sea.
To investigate whether the work of spiritual has occurred we would ask the ship's navigator at the time whether he had any unusual phenomena occur during the incident that has for example warned him of the incoming wave. If there was some kind of intervention on the bridge warning them to turn the ship in a certain way it would be a very good evidence of spiritual intervention.
Anyway it is an interesting story.
I regret being rather intimidated by Christians and also the fact I have not met many Christian youth in my time who were not falling into problematic behavior and thus in various stages of depression or alliance with the devil. If I had been able to integrate more with spiritual Christians who were not hostile to me (as there was hostility from those who spoke) I would certainly have developed already more of a Christian technique in my spiritual life. I did not however ever get fully introduced to Christian spirituality but knew only about reading prayers and saying prayers, meditation, reflection. I was not really introduced to reading the bible. Nor was it insisted on that I pray properly and read more prayers and keep note of strange occurences. Nor did we have a consultation among the children and youth about spiritual and other interesting or difficult experiences.
The time for Christianity is very dire indeed.
Perhaps creating a great body of recitations of the bible and passing them out to people at public missions in the West will motivate people to get involved.
I notice that many atheist agnostic Westerners are still quite interested in things like sacred chanting, narrations about the spiritual world, and meditation and other spiritual development.
The focus of many is on personal development, freeing themselves from the chains of bad behavior and cognition (thoughts) they felt they experienced around them as a child and youth.
Now for myself I wish that I continue my spiritual search and development of character, virtue and destiny. I am eager to see if I can find more testimony and personal experience of the Christian God, the Holy Trinity.
I have other seeker friends who are interested in learning about other Gods, perhaps regrettable from the Christian point of view. However today there are many youth who would prefer to go in spiritual life with Thor, for example, or Buddha. This will serve science in a sense, should we embark on a more scientific approach.
What I most regret and resent is the state of bad behavior in the world, I know for a fact that many parents are negligent and that really true and good friends are as rare in this world as eagles. Everyone's love is seemingly conditioned by various principles that can shift from one day to another, but that generally revolve around senses of obligations to the material world and sometimes to nefarious principles.
I find the tendency of lying and making poor judgement is most despicable, and one of the underlying causes of the worst of humanity's crimes.
The folly of the people, their rejection of the art of counseling with other humans about important topics (and spiritual topics) is perhaps one of the other most seriously negative aspects of modern life.
I myself have been swept up by it all, taken to spreading falsehoods in the name of modern science or making poor judgements (quick and dirty judgements) about politics, history and art. I feel brainwashed by certain fields of study, such as physics, economics and politics. What I mean is that no one has given me a full description of the reality of physics or economics or politics growing up and that I have rather had a kind of rhetorical conviction concerning affairs in these matters than a truly intellectual comprehension. I find this point most important as to put on us on the path layed out by some of the founders of Western Civilization, Socrates and Plato, concerning the importance of rejecting the Sophists, who used rhetorical rather than reasonable arguments to convict the people of a certain point. As impressive as Sophistry can be (and as seemingly convenient as it is in a debate) it truly does impinge on our moral character and intellectual state to be so taken in by rhetoric and not enjoy understanding of the questions of at hand.
I hope you enjoy this little social commentary and philosophical talk.
Peace be with you.
