Today I heard a man say that the second biggest thing that God had ever done for him, was to tell this person that He ‘liked’ him.
The comment moved me. I mean it really stirred me.
I want to be liked by God. Because God made us, I sometimes feel that he is somehow obligated to provide for us, though I am adamantly reminded by theologians that this is not the case. “God is not obligated to do anything for you.” Yes, I understand that….I said I get it.
Perhaps in your zeal to remind me that God is Sovereign, you forgot to tell me that God is love.
And I choose to believe that God likes me too. Because I’ve never in my life met a good Father who didn’t like His son.
You say my experience is subjective, and therefore unreliable. I say that there is no other way to be saved, short of experiencing Jesus for yourself.
I can’t draw it on the ceiling for you anymore than you can draw it for me.
So here is a promise. When I am in the position to tell a group of people about God, I’m going to tell them that He is love, knowing full well that’s not what you taught me to do.
But what I can’t stand hearing you say the most is “We can’t let our theology be just head knowledge, without it affecting your heart.” Because before you came along, such a thought would have never entered my mind. You tell me to love God with all of my mind, as if what Jesus had in mind there was learning an impressive vocabulary. But you also insinuated that if I don’t, then I must not love God with any mind. You never mention Romans 12:1 -2 which tells us to ‘come out of the world and be transformed by the renewing of our minds.” You just assume that Jesus was talking about growing in intellect.
And you know what? When Jesus said ’the works that I do, they shall also do. Greater things than these will they do who believe in my name,” he wasn’t talking about closing the canon of Scripture, or giving some guy a blanket.
It was signs and wonders.
Bible school never had a monopoly on discipleship.
You tell me of the ‘wonders’ of his glory: As it turns out, Jesus didn’t really die for everybody. Just some. And God predestined everything. And I’m not using that word out of context. Read Calvin’s Institutes of Religion if you don’t believe me. So when we see the really bad stuff, you’re nowhere to be found, though all of your “Socratic” questions remain, locked in my head, and making their way toward my heart.
Why didn’t you just go buy a retired vehicle from Waste Management Services, and put a wallpaper galaxy behind it. You could throw a big white sheet over it, and have a big unveiling. “Behold…the glory of God!” Nothing more than a cosmic garbage truck that chews up everything in its path. 
I believe there are truly remarkable theologians out there. I really do. We need good theology. God has gifted theologians with an innate longing for structure, clarity and desire to see God’s work presented in it’s fluid, superfluous best.
We’re waiting
