enchanted angst

My hot take is that whenever God is reduced to a commercial, a blip, a sound bite - He is grossly oversimplified. It doesn't matter what the commercial says. It doesn't matter if it has four points (but if it's really four points, why did Matthew have 28 chapters?), doesn't matter if it slaps you in the face and calls you the worst of all sinners. The God of this world will not be commodified nor objectified, and no one has claim on Him or who He is.  There are many who are passionate about communicating our fallenness and sinfulness as a necessary step to salvation. While I understand the desire for this emphasis, I guess I believe that when you encounter something so purely good, your undeservingness needs no articulation. You just know you're out of your league when the goodness of a wild and loving God descends upon you. Just as when you look at your perfect newborn baby, no words are needed to express how unearned this gift is; those words are drowned out by a...