It makes me wonder if, because of this reduced version of the claims of Christ, we believe the gospel is easy to understand, a simple mental exercise, not in the least bit mysterious. And if you think about it, a person has a more difficult time explaining romantic love, for instance, or beauty, or the Trinity, than the gospel of Jesus. John would open his gospel by presenting the idea that God is the Word and Jesus is the Word and the Word became flesh and dwelt among us. Not exactly bullet points for easy consumption. Perhaps our reduction of these ideas has caused us to miss something.
- Donald Miller in Searching For God Knows What
interesting quote – part of me wants to say it is both the simplest of things and the most complicated – we are invited to follow jesus daily, which is on the one hand so simple a child can do it and yet what the gospel is, what this life in the kingdom looks, feels, smells like is infitenly deep, rich and complex…