Fluid...

People are so fluid. They are changing all the time, in more ways than they will admit. The more I hang out with church people, the more I see how subjective it is. Everyone talks about this opening of their eyes, but it's only from their perspective.

We asked if they have heard God speak to them, people will often respond with umms and ahhs, and a select few will reply, "YES HE HAS"! What happens then, when they are all followers of the 'same' God, and attendees of the same church, but have differing 'revelations' about what God wants for them and for their church? Does the church split? Does it look for the common good?

I do not have an answer. Do not come to me, asking me for the answer to these questions. I ask to challenge and expand our minds. I cannot give you the answer, you have to find it for yourself. If I tried to give you an answer, I would be insulting your intelligence. I openly and enthusiastically encourage all reading this: USE YOUR OWN MIND AND MAKE YOUR OWN DECISION!

Christianity is a perfect religion. Once you believe, if you were to follow by practice, every teaching of the bible, then you would never fall. Every time you fell into doubt and disbelief, a verse would come and give you hope in the God you believe in. However, when looking at Christianity outside of the bible, it becomes an idea. It is a set of rules, or a philosophy, or a religion, or a practice, or an art, or a belief system.

What ever happened to God?

We have a book. Some words, remarkably profound I will admit, but as for God himself, where is he? People talk of experiences and visions and dreams and so many more supernatural experiences. Maybe they're becoming a victim of their human senses. Their mind is creating an experience so powerful that is fosters a belief which is strong enough to send people to their death with lights dancing in their eyes!

Strip it all back. Take out the bible, take out faith, hope, belief; take out anything which would hinder or otherwise persuade our 'clear' thinking.

When Saul met God, he did not believe in Jesus, he did not have faith in Jesus, nor faith, nor love for Jesus. Yet Jesus met him. God met him! So then, we do not need any faith, or hope or belief in any God or any supernatural being for God to be real.

If God is real, then he is.

My only desire is that you open your mind as you journey with 'God'. He may or may not be there. I have not experienced him. I wonder why I haven't, and why I no longer believe I have met God personally.

Big ideas. The mind is more powerful than you can imagine.