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Problem: Solution

If this worked, there would be no unhappy Christians!

Logic masquerading as Mystery

Somewhere along the line, Christians

began to expect the

Bible to be more like a textbook than an expression of the

art and mystery of God. Mystery has been so banished

from Protestant churches that most of them have adopted

theologies that more or less leave the mystical completely

out of their practices. Today the Protestant Church is by

and large disengaged from any true artistic or mystical

expression of the faith.

Oh, we use the arts, especially music and drama, as

vehicles to communicate our beliefs, but we use them to

argue a point rather than tell a story. We tell the facts as

though they were the whole truth. We reason rather than

point to the mystery. We speak to the mind rather than

to the heart. We use artistic tools in mathematical ways,

which is why so much of our church-based “art” is hollow

and thin. It’s not even art. It’s an ad campaign. It’s

logic masquerading as mystery.

 

Solved or Saved?

How we see God

Too often, instead of enjoying the beauty our Maker is
creating in and through us, we view God through the
lens of our personal weakness. Our theology is shaped by
what we lack rather than by who God is.
For example, if we see ourselves as a problem needing
a solution, we want God to be a mathematician.
If we see ourselves as broken and needing repair, we
want God to be a mechanic.
If we see ourselves as lonely, we want God to be a
friend.
If we see ourselves as ignorant, we want God to be a
teacher.
It’s as if we are all lining up to visit the Wizard of
Oz, each with our own deep deficiency, and the wizard
becomes to each of us what we need.
- from The Art of Being You

Meeting with the mayor of Casoria/Naples, Italy.

Rick Dupea, Douglas Valenzuela and I met with the mayor who pledged full support for our concerts in September at the festival. 100,000 people will be there!

Today is the last day of your past…

…Or it’s the first day of the rest of your life. Either way, this is the only moment of your life. This razor’s edge of “now” we ride, so perfectly poised as to be unaware how sharp, even ruthless, it can be. Now becomes Past before we can grab it, hold it, describe it, enjoy it. As CS Lewis pointed out about joy, once you know you’re experiencing it you’re one step removed from it. The same is true of the present Moment. Perhaps this is why it seems that Jesus stressed living without an awareness of ourselves; to be self aware is to lose our place on the edge of Now.