Random Mixture of Thoughts

Random thought one:

referring to the suburban church, "but when the church fails to break the barrier [going into the cities], both sides lose. Those who need the gospel message of hope and reality of love don't get it; and the isolated church keeps evangelizing the same people over and over until its only mission finally is to entertain itself."

-Loving God, by Chuck Colson

Random thought two:

I have come to find that I cannot explain God to anyone and I no longer intend to. I am living what I love and God will explain Himself.

It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God. The disciples were even more amazed, and said to each other, "Who then can be saved?" Jesus looked at them and said, "With man this is impossible, but not with God, all things are possible with God."

Mark 10:25-27

Random thought three:

"In the moment of surrender, I let go of all the theological or social questions which had kept me from [God] for countless years. I simply let them go. There was the sense, profound and wordless, that if He knew everything I did not have to know everything, and that, in seeking to know everything, I'd been, all of my life, missing the entire point. No social paradox, no historic disaster, no hideous record of injustice or misery should keep me from Him. No question of Scriptural integrity, no torment over the fate of this or that atheist or gay friend, no worry for those condemned and ostracized by my church or any other church should stand between me and Him. The reason? It was magnificently simple: He knew how or why everything happened; He knew the disposition of every single soul. He wasn't going to let anything happen by accident! Nobody was going to go to Hell by mistake."

From: Called out of Darkness, a Spiritual Confession

by Anne Rice