I've been bugged by some of you (well, the three of you actually) why there isn't any new posts. So here I go....

What would happen if we removed the "check and balances" of the hell from our theology? How would we live if we removed the fear of punishment from our view of spirituality. Dallas Willard writes in his book "The divine conspiracy" that we have reduced the good news Gospel-story to sin management. Its all about sinning less and less. Which leaves us with very boring lives - lives that isnt really so much filled with anything, rather just empty of certain things. I've heard Erwin McManus say that certain fires can be put out with water, sand, etc. But some fires can only be extinguished by another fire that is burning on another fuel. I think something beautiful happen when we are freed from our sinful nature, and we can live in the identity of how God created us to be.

May our message, and our lives, sing to the tune of people who has chosen to follow in the way of Jesus, not out of fear, but because of our confidence (faith) that it is really the ONLY way to live....