Life's too short to be stuck in your own past

"Environment is more powerful than genetics. Keep company that you can learn from."

The Bible tells a story. A story that isn’t over. A story that is still being told. A story that we have a part to play in.

But sometimes when I hear people quote the Bible, I just want to throw up.

When a leader comes along who eliminates the tension and dodges the paradox and neatly and precisely explains who the enemies are and gives black-and-white answers to questions, leaving little room for the very real mystery of the divine, it should not surprise us when that person gains a large audience. Especially if that person is really, really confident.

Whether we are reading the Bible for the first time or standing in a field in Israel next to a historian and an archaeologist and a scholar, the Bible meets us where we are. That is what truth does

For Jesus, the question wasn’t, “How do I get into heaven?” but “How do I bring heaven here?

If your faith is threatened by something that’s true, then it wasn’t much of a faith to begin with, was it?

But the first Christians didn’t see Jesus this way, as if God were somewhere else and then cooked up some way to solve the sin problem at the last minute by getting involved as Jesus. They believed that Jesus was somehow more, that Jesus had actually been present since before creation and had been a part of the story all along.

Far too often, we don't start because we can't get our minds around the entire thing. We don't take the first step because we can't figure out the seventeenth step. But you don't have to know the seventeenth step. You only have to know the first step. Because the first number is always 1. Start with 1.

God wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth” (1 Tim. 2). So does God get what God wants?

Rob Bell

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