I have been reading Brian Mclarens book "A new kind of christian" for a week and a half now, and tell you what it has really open my eyes to modern day christianity. I am about to write a snippet from the book which really caught of guard and give a kick in the teeth. It made release that we are not in control of God, and God does not need us all the time...
(before i write this snippet i better tell you who the pastor is writing this email to. Dan who is the pastor in the book is writing a letter to his friend Neo, and they are discussing what Dan spoke about at a college to group of students on post modern christianity. This is a chat dan had with one of the students).
Then I find myself standing in line at the refreshment table, and I'm standing behind a young woman with a lot of earrings and I say something to her and she turns around and seems startled and says, "Whoa, you're the speaker, aren't you?" And then her eyes fill up with tears, and she says, "I started crying during your talk tonight. You are the first pastor I've ever met who admitted that Christianity didn't own God."Actually, I hadn't said that, at least not in those words. Then she says, "I want to serve God somehow with my life. I think at heart I'm like a missionary or something. But here's what I know: whenever I get to know individual non-Christians - I mean really get to know them - I am completely convinced that I find God already there and at work in thier lives. It doesnt matter if they're way-out New Agers or even atheists. So it's clear to me that God doesn't limit himself to working in Christians' lives. We try to serve God, but we don't own him, and deep down I have always known that, but you're the first member of the clergy who was, like, real enough to say it. Somehow, hearing you talk about God working outside the context of the 'saved,' I really felt validated."
(I just thought that was a awesome bit of that chapter)
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