The Gospel is real, really!

The following is from one of my devotional readings from today (Friday after the Fourth Sunday after Trinity). This is from Bo Giertz, who was baptized as an infant in the Swedish Lutheran Church, then became atheist, then stopped rejecting Christ as his baptism held stronger to him than his faulty intellect and was eventually called as bishop of Gothenburg. 
He writes:

It is now obvious that the talk about the cross is God's power of salvation for those who receive it in faith. It's something that affects us, something that shows it's a reality by intervening in our lives. We can't see God. However, we can encounter Him in such a way that there is no doubt who we're dealing with. That happens through the Gospel.

The Christian experience IS truly an experience. Faith is not the adult way of playing make-believe, and Jesus is not our imaginary friend.  He is real.  He really was born, suffered under a specific Roman prefect, truly died and yes, He even rose from the dead.  There were witnesses to all of that.  Those witnesses have recorded what they saw and heard with their own senses.  The Holy Scripture, and specifically the Gospels, are those very recordings.  And because they are the truth, they are God's Word, and because they are God's Word they have power.  They have the power to kill (Law) and they have the power to raise up again (Gospel).   This is how God intervenes in our lives.  Is it mystical?  Yes, in a way.  But that doesn't make it any less real.  In fact, because it is God's Word, it is the most REAL thing we possess here in this life.