"Christianity is not a message which has to be believed, but an experience of faith that becomes a message.
"Before discussing the nature of that experience, it must be noted that Jesus alone reveals who God is. He is the source of our information about transcendence/divinity. We cannot deduce anything about Jesus from what we think we know about God; however, we must deduce everything about God from what we know about Jesus. This implies that all of our prevailing images and understandings of God must crumble in the earthquake of Jesus' self-disclosure. Trust means the willingness to become absolutely empty of all terrifying and comforting images of God that we have held, so that the gift of God in Jesus Christ may come to us on God's terms." (Ruthless Trust p. 88)
Ah, once again the refreshing and necessary message that it is NOT about us....It's ALL about Jesus!
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