It is not clear to me whether, when Jim Whitaker writes: "Our God is personal." he means that God is a person or that God is personal to each individual, or both. In any case, the phrase "Our God" implies a single deity worshiped by a multitude of individuals. Is there a contradiction between the postulate of deity as common to many and the postulate of deity as subjective and inward, subjective and inward like the individual soul? Can a subjective deity manifest itself to a multitude? Is not the deity worshiped by a multitude objective, merely by virtue of the fact of its being public? Are we to conclude that deity can be objective and subjective at the same time? If so, have not these terms lost their meaning? If we define, tentatively and crudely: subjective as inward and private; objective as outward and public, then the Judaic-Christian continuity may be interpreted as a dialectic between the subjectivity of faith and the objectivity of the law; the subjectivity of the cross and the objectivity of the church. A dialectic which, it seems to me, is recapitulated in Christendom time and again, in the theology of Luther, and unmistakable traces of which seem to me to appear in Kierkegaard's writing and in his life.