“I understand God to be the energy, the glue, the force, the life, the power, and the source of all we know to be the depth, fullness and vitality of life from the highest of highs to the lowest of lows and everything in between….This ‘withness’ directly confronts popular notions of God that put God somewhere else, doing something else, coming here now and again to do God-type things.
“God is FOR every single one of us, regardless of our beliefs or perspectives or actions or failures or mistakes or sins or opinions about whether God exists or not…. How many of the dominant theological systems of thought insist that God is angry and hateful and just waiting to judge us unless we do or say or perform or belief the right things actually make people miserable and plague them with all kinds of new stresses and anxieties, never more so than when they actually start believing that God is really like that…[We need to] see the radical, refreshing, revolutionary ‘forness’ that is at the heart of Jesus message about God as it informs and transforms our life.”
— Rob Bell, What We Talk About When We Talk About God
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