Thursday, August 11, 2005

Why I Love Donald Miller

In "Searching for God Knows What", Donald Miller has a wonderful section where he talks about being in a lifeboat. He uses the analogy of the lifeboat for us to reflect on our walk here as disciples of Christ. Here is morsel of what you will get when you read the entire book.

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"Sometimes I think it is easier for you and me to believe Jesus is God now that He is in heaven than it might have been back when He was walking around on earth. If you would have seen Jesus do miracles, and if you were one of those who were healed by Him or if you were one of the disciples, then it would have been easier, but for most people, especially the Jews, Jesus would have been a stumbling block.

At the same time, however, we are at a disadvantage because the Jesus that exists in our minds is hardly the real Jesus. The Jesus on CNN, the Jesus in our books and in our movies, the Jesus that is a collection of evangelical personalities, is often a Jesus of the suburbs, a Jesus who wants you to be a better yuppie, a Jesus who is extremely political and supports a specific party, a Jesus who has declared a kind of culture war in the name of our children, a Jesus who worked through the founding fathers to begin America, a Jesus who dresses very well, speaks perfect English, has three points that fulfill any number of promises and wants you and me to be, above all, comfortable. Is this the real Jesus?

Is Jesus sitting in the lifeboat with us, stroking our backs and telling us we are the ones who are right and one day these other infidels are going to pay, that we are the ones who are going to survive and the others are going to be thrown over because we Calvinist, Armenians, Baptist, Methodist, Catholics; because we Republicans, Democrats, conservatives, or liberals; because we attend a big church, a small church, an ethnically diverse church, a house church, or is Jesus acting in our hearts to reach out to the person who isn't like us....the oppressed, the poor, the unchurched.......and to humble ourselves, give of our money, build communities in love, give our time, our creativity, get on our knees before our enemies in humility, treating them as Scripture says, as people who are more important than we are? The latter is the Jesus of Scripture; the former, which is infinitely more popular in evangelical culture, is a myth sharing a genre with unicorns."

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That is why I love Donald Miller.

11 Comments:

At 5:44 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I gotta get that book.

 
At 6:59 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

We ARE in a lifeboat, I think. No doubt. And God and Jesus are in control of the outcome, if we will but seek their counsel and follow who they truly are. Thanks for the post.

 
At 8:28 PM, Blogger jettybetty said...

I so agree! Donald Miller is right on!

JB

 
At 8:36 PM, Blogger Bar L. said...

I loved Blue Like Jazz and this seems to be another great book by Don. :)

 
At 10:41 AM, Blogger PatrickMead said...

#$**@&$! THAT'S what I was trying to say in my "pink aisle" blog, but this is sooooo much better. Thanks, David.

 
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