I am struggling to find any value in Mars Hill Bible Church's statement of "theology." The main reason is because it does not say anything. I also noticed this when I read Velvet Elvis, a book by Mars Hill's pastor Rob Bell. There is so much flowery language in the statement that I feel nauseous after reading it:
When we begin to describe what we believe about God, we discover that he's been
writing a story of hope and redemption for all the world, and we have a role to play in this story.
We believe the Bible to be the voices of many who have
come before us, inspired by God to pass along their poems, stories, accounts,
and letters of response and relationship with each other and the living God. These words have been used to describe God and his character for
thousands of years, and we call this theology. Theology is one of the
best ways we can come to know and love God; it is also how we understand who God
calls us to be and what he calls us to do. Theology comes from the Greek words
"theos" and "logos." Theos means God, and logos means word. Words about God.
Theology is "words about God?" Wow, it does not get much more shallow than that. I cringe when I see people diminishing God so much. It is painful.
1 comment:
No, I think this is great...it really just resonates with me if you know what I mean...so authentic, so relevent, so real. I just want to have a conversation about it.
*Sarcasm may be detected in the above words.
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