The Only Thing We Want to Know

February 12, 2013 at 9:14 am (Quotes)

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“People often ask me what I believe… which always cracks me up, because you always think, well, why would I write that song, ‘Creed,’ if I didn’t believe it? That should pretty much outline it for you. They want to know what my millennial view is. I don’t even have a millennial view. I can’t see it. They want to know what I believe about baptism. Well, I think a lot of things about baptism, but I don’t really know what I believe about it. My faith isn’t in that. My faith isn’t in creationism. Certainly isn’t in the Religious Right kind of reasoning. Everything that has ever happened has failed, and it will continue to fail. But I think that’s because God is a jealous God. And he will not share us even with our best ideas about him.”

“And when Christ has stripped away all of your phony-baloney kind of systematic theology, all of your lame, Protestant kind of stupidity, all of your Catholic hang-ups, when Christ has stripped away everything that we have invented about him, then maybe we will encounter him as he really is. And we will know ourselves as we really are. So don’t be afraid that your faith gets shaken. Could be that God is shaking you forward, and shaking you free.”

“And the issue is not which side of which fence you end up on. The issue is really, has to do with, what does it mean to love Christ? What does it mean to obey him? And I’m not really even sure what that is. But if there is any meaning in the life of Jesus of Nazareth, it is this — that there is a God who created us, and who loves us so much that he would stop at nothing to bring us to him.”

“And I really suspect that of all the things we think we want to know, the only thing we really want to know is that we are loved. And if Jesus means anything, he means that you are loved. I hope you know that. And I hope you stop worrying about all the stuff you don’t know, because I don’t think it amounts to a hill of beans.”

– Rich Mullins

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