http://www.theocentricpreaching.com/2007/01/02/starving-for-the-greatness-of-god/ "The most difficult lie I have ever contended with is this: Life is a story about me." Donald Miller Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:33:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://www.theocentricpreaching.com/2007/01/02/starving-for-the-greatness-of-god/#comment-236 Naomi Johnson Tue, 09 Jan 2007 05:15:34 +0000 http://www.theocentricpreaching.com/2007/01/02/starving-for-the-greatness-of-god/#comment-236 The problem is, we're so out of touch with God, we have no mental or theological vocabularies to even begin offering God-entranced preaching. For ministers who will start exploring why Christianity is so out of touch with God, they may have the one-day hope of showing/telling how Great that God truly is. And Piper is right, that's what everyone longs to hear and know--whether they realize it or not. We need a God that is much, MUCH bigger than the One we too often are presented with, even in the best of our churches. "The evangelical movement in our country is characterized by an arrogance that is beyond belief. As God has been degraded to a being scarcely a half inch bigger than us humans, we have assumed gigantic proportions in our own eyes. In consequence of this, professed Christians have felt a liberty to neglect major portions of scripture and be virtually untaught in and unaffected by the long history of the Christian church." Richard Roberts, quoted by Sunder Krishnan, Rexdale Alliance, Jan 6,2007 The problem is, we’re so out of touch with God, we have no mental or theological vocabularies to even begin offering God-entranced preaching.
For ministers who will start exploring why Christianity is so out of touch with God, they may have the one-day hope of showing/telling how Great that God truly is. And Piper is right, that’s what everyone longs to hear and know–whether they realize it or not. We need a God that is much, MUCH bigger than the One we too often are presented with, even in the best of our churches.
“The evangelical movement in our country is characterized by an arrogance that is beyond belief. As God has been degraded to a being scarcely a half inch bigger than us humans, we have assumed gigantic proportions in our own eyes. In consequence of this, professed Christians have felt a liberty to neglect major portions of scripture and be virtually untaught in and unaffected by the long history of the Christian church.” Richard Roberts, quoted by Sunder Krishnan, Rexdale Alliance, Jan 6,2007

]]> http://www.theocentricpreaching.com/2007/01/02/starving-for-the-greatness-of-god/#comment-230 Steve Mon, 08 Jan 2007 03:31:39 +0000 http://www.theocentricpreaching.com/2007/01/02/starving-for-the-greatness-of-god/#comment-230 Great quote, thanks! Great quote, thanks!

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