Many Christians play at religion...
Many Christians play at religion, prancing along the shores of the great ocean of God and
running from the waves. The prophets, however, are dragged into the sea by God's
riptide. They're beaten around by God's currents, overwhelmed and amazed by God.
This is almighty God, our Creator we deal with, not a god we select, pushing our
shopping cart through the aisles that sell specks of philosophies and bits of religions. Our
Creator calls us to attention and argues with us.
We can reel off all our common sense reasons why we're doing just swell, why our slip-