Categories: changing mindsets, Tags: changing mindsets, Distorted images of God, faith
Part 1 here.
Part 2 here.
Part 3 here.
I’m probably going to wrap this series up within the next couple of weeks, because I think we’re probably getting the idea behind it–which is that we all have some measure of distortion in our mental pictures of God, which often gives us the wrong idea about Him. But before we wrap it up, I want to tackle at least one more of the common ways we distort the image of God. I call this one “God the Sugar-Daddy.”
Need I continue?
Categories: food for thought, Meanderings (look it up), Tags: experience, faith, food for thought, ramblings
Here’s the thing. If you’re going to get the full context for part 2, you’re going to have to read part 1.
In part 1, I rambled on about how I believe that faith in God must involve experiencing Him as well as believing in Him. In this post, I’d like to ramble some more, particularly talking about what experiential faith involves, what it might look like.
Categories: food for thought, Meanderings (look it up), Tags: experience, faith, ramblings
You know, one inherent danger in blogging about this stuff (especially for people like me who tend to over-think), is that if we aren’t careful, we can end up approaching God, the church, theology and all the rest strictly as a mental exercise. I have some blogger friends who have vacated the online discussion simply because they got tired of talking theology and wanted to get back to simple, real-life stuff. I also know that when we try to approach God completely from the perspective of the mind, we’re bound to fall short. Inevitably there are going to be unanswered questions and apparent contradictions, and in some cases it has even caused people at different times to question their faith or abandon it completely.