About

This blog is about the way I think and react. I like people to like me, but blogs often get an opposite reaction. Oh well. Don’t hold our church accountable for what I say. It’s me speaking. I’m figuring out the dynamics of life at the interchange of the God-zone and the bio-sphere. I like people around me who are there, too. Jesus lived in that dynamic. The early church lived there. We can, too.

I trust the Bible as true, authentic, and God-breathed. I believe God used real men to write these historical documents, but did not move their pens or choose the right words for them. As men saw reality intersecting with God activity, they wrote what they saw, heard, and believed. It was as if the form they saw stayed hidden until they covered it with layers of words. I see far too many skeptics throw away the words of the Bible because they cannot see the framework underneath.

I trust the life, words, death, and resurrection of Jesus. Who else in history has given so much freedom and life to so many diverse people without the coercion and manipulation of other religions? Why is it that people all over the world use his name as a curse word, and always speak of him in the present tense? Who else has named followers who didn’t pick him apart as a flawed leader after he was gone? Nobody wrote of his flaws. None of his followers denied his resurrection. All of his words in the gospels found ready acceptance in the early church. They trusted, and so do I.

I believe God is alive and well today, intervening in history and in people’s small pockets of existence. God speaks to people, though if someone said it too much I will think they have a psychosis! God reveals patterns and underlying motives to people to help prevent self-righteous, aggrandizement. He reveals His majesty and grandeur in thickets and clumps along the trail of life. We catch snippets of his material blessing and healing. He surprises with the gift of meaning and satisfaction in my work and relationships.

The church is the best place to get healthy. Does every church get this endorsement? Almost! Christians feel compelled to gather with other Christians. Safety exists there. Supernatural, otherworldly, and divine endorsements of love, faithfulness, and hope percolate into bodies of believers. Though often groups go off track, most get back on track. Hundreds of years may go by, but the essence of Christianity never leaves. People in church rub shoulders with others for working out personality and  higher ethics. We pray in love over those in need. As we share food or shelter we meet each other’s needs. We prize honesty and integrity, even though we breach that standard often enough to warrant us all hypocrites. We get out of our shells and into a higher calling in the church. To this end we receive the highest endorsement: the body of Christ.