“God is not God’s name. God is our name for that which is greater than all and yet present in each.” — Forrest Church
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Tag: John Shelby Spong
The Age To Come, aka Eternal Life
If God is the source of life, then the worship of this God forces me into the task of living—living fully.
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God Is An Experience That Is Real
God, I believe, is an experience that is real. Creeds are, however, nothing more than attempted explanations of that God experience. Theology thus represents little more than human attempts to organize the explanations. Doctrine then becomes only the attempt to enforce the theology arrived at in those creeds. Finally, dogma develops, which is doctrine literalized and turned into idolatry!
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YHWH
God is not a noun that needs to be defined. God is a verb that needs to be lived.
Say It Like You Mean It
We cannot pray the Jesus prayer, “Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven,” unless we are willing to act as agents of that in-breaking kingdom by giving up our petty divisions, our excessive claims and our symbols of power and begin to devote all our energies to building a different kind of world.
Learning From Others, Seeking The Way 