Thursday, June 22, 2006
God's revolt
"Two thousand years ago God started a revolt against the religion he started. So don't ever put it past God to cause a groundswell movement against churches and Christian institutions that bear his name"
- Erwin McManus
Wednesday, June 07, 2006
Religion versus mystery
The Leadership Journal blog, Out of Ur, provides an excerpt from a book by Ed Gungor, Religiously Transmitted Diseases in a post entitled: "Is Jesus the Answer or the Question?: rediscovering the role of mystery in our faith". I haven't read the book, but it sounds interesting. Here are some notable quotes:I think Christianity is supposed to be the unreligion. That’s because the strictness and predictability of religion causes simple, pure faith to become diseased. If not stopped, religion can even kill living faith....But religion does have its attraction. It is so neat, so organized, so repetitive, so habitual, and oh-so-predictable. It makes God look more like a clock than a person – ticking and tocking in a perfectly ordered way. Life isn’t nearly so conventional. It is messy and full of surprises. Repetitious? Yes, but certainly not predictable....Religion may be attractive on one level, but it always strives to remove all the mystery that congests life. It has answers for everything, because questions are way too untidy. “Jesus is the answer.” Right? But what if Jesus isn’t the answer? What if He is the question?
