You Can Only Love And Be Loved

I Hate How Hard Spiritual Transformation Is And How Long It Takes. I Hate Thinking About How Many People Have Gone To Church For Decades And Remain Joyless Or Judgmental Or Bitter Or Superior.

In The Beginning, We're Told, Was The Word. Every Once In A While Someone Shows Up On The Planet Who Is Word-obsessed And Word-gifted; And The Light And Darkness Get Named Again. In Our Day, That Someone Is Buechner.

Over And Over In The Bible, It Is Fear That Threatens To Keep People From Trusting And Obeying God.

There Is Something You Can't Fix, Can't Heal, Or Can't Escape, And All You Can Do It Trust God. Finding Ultimate Refuge In God Means You Become So Immersed In His Presence, So Convinced Of His Goodness, So Devoted To His Lordship That You Find Even The Cave Is A Perfectly Safe Place To Be Because He Is There With You.

One Of The Great Misconceptions About Spiritual Growth That Develops In A Lot Of Churches Is That Information Alone Is Adequate To Produce Transformed Human Beings. So If We Want To Have A Church Of Spiritually Mature People, Let's Just Keep Cramming More And More Information Into Them... Information Alone Is Not Adequate For The Transformation Of The Human Personality.