Professor Dwight Sheets on WWJD
“It is the fact that we really don’t know what Jesus would have done in any given situation because he so often did things we wouldn’t expect. In some cases he did the purely unacceptable.”
Dr. Dwight Sheets
God’s Voice in The Shack
“I am what some would say ‘holy, and wholly other than you.’ The problem is that many folks try to grasp some sense of who I am by taking the best version of themselves, projecting that to the nth degree, factoring in all the goodness they can perceive, which often isn’t much, and then call that God. And while it may seem like a noble effort, the truth is that it falls pitifully short of who I really am. I’m not merely the best version of you that you can think of. I am far more than that, above and beyond all that you can ask or think.”
God, The Shack
You are Treating Jesus like a Commodity
“… I worry that those you entice to following Jesus at your event, will start off with such a skewed picture of what this Jesus character is about that they will never really be able to see clearly the real Jesus we meet in the gospels.”
Ariah Fine
What is Prayer?
“Prayer is a bulletin board where I post memos to the Almighty. It is not a chess game where I negotiate to get God to see or do things my way. He knows how it looks through my eyes. He knows how to manage a universe. Prayer isn’t a way to see things like he does. It’s a refuge.”
Ragamuffin Prayers
A Prayer for Those of Us Who Miss The Point
“Jesus save us from missing the point. Save us from our self-absorbed commodified version of you and your good news. Let our songs to and about you inspire us to act in the way you acted while here on earth. After all isn’t that what a follower of Christ is supposed to do?”
Chris Flinchbaugh
John Howard Yoder’s Moral Clash
“The cross of Calvary was not a difficult family situation, not a frustration of visions of personal fulfillment, a crushing debt or a nagging in-law; it was the political, legally to be expected result of a moral clash with the powers ruling his society.”
John Howard Yoder
Is Jesus a Counter-cultural or a Non-conformist?
“Jesus wasn’t so much counter-cultural as he was non-conformed within culture. Instead of being counter to the culture, running in the other direction, we march into the city centers and live as a light to the world. Christ followers are called to radically re-interpret the values of their culture, this often includes flipping them on their heads.”
C. Wess Daniels
Hauerwas’s Abortion Theologically Understood
“The Gospel is feminist. In Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, Jesus treats women as thinking people who are worthy of respect. This was not, of course, the usual attitude of that time.”
Stanley Hauerwas
Song of the Orissa BIC Church
“Take the Good News out into every village. Churches will be planted. God will give us success. This is, this is, this is our vision …”
Song of the Orissa BIC Church
A Physicist’s Humble Approach to Science and Faith
“I’m very astonished that the scientific picture of the
real world is very deficient. It gives a lot of factual information, puts all our experience in a magnificently consistent order, but it is ghastly silent about all and sundry that is really near to our heart, that really matters to us.”
Erwin Schrödinger, author of the Schrödinger equation