No Life Of Faith Can Be Lived

Religion Is A Very Scary Thing, Because A Pastor Is In A Position Of Power. And If You Use That Power Badly, You Ruin People's Lives, And You Ruin Your Own Life.

The Word 'christian' Means Different Things To Different People. To One Person It Means A Stiff, Upright, Inflexible Way Of Life, Colorless And Unbending. To Another It Means A Risky, Surprised-filled Adventure, Lived Tiptoe At The Edge Of Expectation...if We Get Our Information From The Biblical Material, There Is No Doubt That The Christian Life Is A Dancing, Leaping, Daring Life.

The Vocation Of Pastor Has Been Replaced By The Strategies Of Religious Entrepreneurs With Business Plans.

Every Call To Worship Is A Call Into The Real World.... I Encounter Such Constant And Widespread Lying About Reality Each Day And Meet With Such Skilled And Systematic Distortion Of The Truth That I'm Always In Danger Of Losing My Grip On Reality. The Reality, Of Course, Is That God Is Sovereign And Christ Is Savior. The Reality Is That Prayer Is My Mother Tongue And The Eucharist My Basic Food. The Reality Is That Baptism, Not Myers-briggs, Defines Who I Am.

Praying Puts Us At Risk Of Getting Involved In God's Conditions. Be Slow To Pray. Praying Most Often Doesn't Get Us What We Want But What God Wants, Something Quite At Variance With What We Conceive To Be In Our Best Interests.