Christ is alive! Can I get a witness?

Hallelujah!

Or as some of us learned in Sunday School, “Hallelu, Hallelu, Hallelu, Hallelujah . . . Praise Ye The Lord.”

If Christ is alive, why aren’t we more alive? Why don’t we feel more alive this morning?

One word: agoraphobia.

Ever heard of it? Every know of anyone who had it?

Of all the dozens of phobias people can suffer from, one of the most debilitating is the fear of open spaces. Agoraphobia.

A friend born and raised in the Midwest described how she felt exposed, uncomfortable, as if she were going to “fall off the edge of the world” when she moved to the Pacific coast. The ocean expanse was too vast, too open-ended. It left her with an out of control feeling. She had to move back to the Midwest.

Other agoraphobic people have anxiety…