Who do you come to church for? Do you come to acclaim a god of your preference - that god you'd like to select in the supermarket of faith? But if God exists, then by definition God is who he is, not what we want him to be. Some say:
The left hand column are things most people would have no problem with. But those on the right? Not so easily, and yet they are the flip side of the coin for those on the left ... you can't separate them! Everything we know about God - the Christian God that is - is that God makes extraordinary claims, about who we are, about who he is, and about the nature of our existence: and that necessarily includes the attributes in left column AND the right column above. In our church services we gather together to share with each other from our lives, and to stand together in our worship of God. Will you worship a God who allows people to go to hell, lets people suffer, claims exclusivity, and judges us? Because that is part of the package, and if it makes you uncomfortable, you need to deal with it. Two options: deny that selective aspects are the real nature of God, or wrestle with it all while recognizing you cannot fully understand God. So this Sunday, when we come to church, it is our individual choice whether we come to worship a sanitized god, or the God as experienced and described in history. If the former, we're engaged in collective idiocy that is catastrophically illogical. I'm not sure if that's not a more scary proposition than worshipping the God whose perceived character offends me.
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