If God, Then What?

I love this subversive God and his upside-down empire of outcasts, prostitutes, slaves and lepers, where even the twelve disciples were made up of sceptics and terrorists and tax cheats and northern boaties who smelled of fish.

I doubt you can solve the problem of evil without sorting out the human heart.

The Hebrews really believed the world would be set free, just like people would be – and they expressed that redemption in incredibly physical terms.

‘the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?’

there’s no solution for anything without fixing the hole in the human soul.

the universe’s Creator was best understood through a human being who loved people and made friends, who ate meals and went to parties, who told jokes and cried when sad things happened, who built community, told stories, hated arrogance, welcomed losers and criminals and children, got betrayed, confronted hypocrites, healed sick people, forgave sin

to say that something is possible doesn’t necessarily mean it’s probable.

None of us has ever known a world without disease, or suffering, or war or injustice. So it’s surprising how certain we are that something is wrong with it.

Tragedy and comedy, problem and solution, hope and despair, they’re all jumbled up together in the human condition.