New perspectives...

These are some thoughts that are coagulating after reading Donald Miller's new book"Searching for God Knows What":

If you were in a lifeboat and had to throw one person out so everyone could survive, how would you determine who it would be?

What if this lifeboat question is behind all of the relational strife in our world, all the way down to my one-on-one struggles with people?

What if all the rules we've established for maintaining our "worthy" position in the lifeboat were simply wrong - what if the lifeboat did not really exist?

In the same way, what if God is not interested in us discovering formulas, rules, and checklists in the bible?

What if the good news about Jesus is not about checking off a list at all, but all about truly entering into relationship with God through Christ?