On Faith

Let me just say it. God is good. I thought about a separate blog for my thoughts and musings on faith and God and Christianity in general, but I am not going that. My reasoning is simple. My life and politics are not separate from my faith so neither need my blogs be separate. In fact, my life and politics are quiet decidedly colored by my faith.

Today I am visiting Crossroads Church in Nampa, Idaho. This is my sister's family's church and I really like it. They have choosen to be a church that preaches, teaches, and lives a radical Christianity.

I also started reading Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God by Francis Chan. It starts out with the very idea by which I want to live my life. That is a radical Christianity. One that convinces people that God is real in my life, that my life is different in a way that cannot be explain by anything else.

John Wesley was on to this very idea back in the 18th century when he wrote about Christian Perfection. To Wesley, Christian Perfection was achieved when life is lived in pure love, that love spoken of in Deuteronomy and in Matthew, the one that loves the Lord our God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strenth, and our neighbors as ourselves, that life out of which all things are motivated and animated by the love of God in our hearts.

Crazy Love is going in that same direction--life lived in love with a holy, all-powerful, all-knowing, eternal, fair and just God. Just think about that. To love and be loved by a God that big. If we unpack just how big our God is we cannot help but live a radical Christan life, and that is where I want to be.