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the system is not the solution
Every systematic theology, every air-tight system, every completely consistent view of the bible, every logically constructed and perfectly put together faith, crashes like waves on the shoreline of God. Because the Bible is not the system in written form and the system, once “discovered” (read: invented) is not the solution. The Bible is a living, breathing, personal witness to a living, breathing, personal God, with whom we have to do. This is what drives us crazy about the God revealed in the Bible–a God of mystery, paradox, plain speech, simple commands, subtly, a.k.a. a personal God: a someone with whom we have to do. Directly. Last night I went to sleep dreaming-praying…
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