The stench of modernism has left its indelible mark on the
Christian culture of today. Knowledge is
valued above all and everything has a recipe - just follow the formula. But
relationship is a heart thing, an experiential process involving trust,
friendship and ultimately love birthed over time, love that makes us
transparent to the object of our love, where we risk all for a deeper more
intimate love.
The scriptures are a love story, wrought with the very
emotions of God. The history of mankind
is an emotional experience beginning with a tragic relational break with God
followed by a disturbing relational history away from God and collimating in a
relationship dynamic man must embrace in order to have relational intimacy with
God once again. Relational Intimacy with God heals man of all the wounds he
experienced while trying to satisfy his need for divine relationship... for
wholeness, in a not so divine world.
The gospel of Jesus is all about our relationship with Jesus
rather than about formulas, systems of truth tenants, ideas or theology. These things are nice in that they compute
easily into memory and make us feel spiritual, and possibly prideful, as we
share our knowledge, but they may also blind us to the absolute necessity of intimate
relationship that must be developed between our heart and God’s heart, for us
truly to become His followers... love-slaves... adopted sons and daughters...
friends...
Formula Christianity
gives people a false sense of security – that all one must do is complete a set
of requirements... a check list, while stealing the sincerity and humility with
which we should engage God in search of personal relationship. A person must understand that Jesus is alive,
that He exists, that He is God, that He is in authority, that we need to submit
to Him, that He has the power to save, that He loves us very much, and that He
died to reestablish relationship with us, and so on. All of these are ideas embedded in a
relational dynamic, a mysterious interaction between the heart of a person and
the heart of God. Becoming a Christian is more like falling in
love than baking a cake.
LET’S FALL IN LOVE
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