Comments on: The Gospel of Risk Management

By: brad brisco

brad brisco — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:09:08 +0000

Chad, thanks for stopping by. I read you latest post about Dr. Tiller in Wichita. I am originally from Wichita, and several years ago my wife was the director of a pro-life education organization, therefore we dealt often with “Tiller the baby Killer.” It is really a horrible situation.

Jonathan, my life as well.

By: Jonathan Brink

Jonathan Brink — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:13:22 +0000

Thanks for sharing this Brad. It’s very poignant for my life right now.

By: Pastor Chad

Pastor Chad — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:00:39 +0000

I think much of this is because we come from a culture of fear. We are so afraid of the unknown, the uncommon, the strange, that we are worried about it in our faith lives. God is not something that we can trim down to size. We study the world hoping to be able to understand it and God. But when we hear about the crazy things that God has made. The incredible size of stars in the universe. The incredible detail of the smallest molecules. The way that our ecosystem holds together in spite of its fragile nature. The more we realise that we do not, and cannot understand God’s creation, let alone God.

So we avoid the big, mysterious, awesome God, and instead worship the warm, fuzzy, grandpa with a flowing white robe and long beard.

We are scared of the real God, because that God makes demands on our lives.