Books by Ian Rogers
Books by Ian Rogers
Sometimes I get to complicated. I know someone who is leaning towards Christian belief but isn’t quite there yet. Not a great reader, he has listened to the entire Bible through his smart phone. “It’s good some good things in it,” he said, but also and separately: “I find God in myself and in nature not somewhere out there.” After several years of friendship I eventually asked if I could text occasion religious thoughts to him - he would read a text - and I got the ok. I then agonised over just what to send! How to distil rampant thoughts into key points? I’ve managed two in two weeks and here they are:
“Knowing your shaky feelings about God, just focus on Jesus.” I gave a few verse references knowing he could ‛Ask Alexa’ to see them easily. “Jesus family thought he was mad (Mk 3v21); the religious lawyers said he was possessed by the Devil (Mk 3v22). Jesus said: ‛The Son of God has authority to forgive sins’ (Mk 2v7+10) and he proved it. He was either mad, bad or who he said he was.”
“Jesus never spoke total condemnation over anyone. Strong warning’s sometimes but always with a way out if they chose to take it. See John 3v17. More usually Jesus just accepted people as they were and showed love for them - which was God’s love for them. It isn’t easy to imagine an infinite, all-powerful God actually being loving. It’s like saying that sunshine is loving, or outer space is loving. That is why Jesus had to come to earth. Someone said: ‛Jesus is God with skin on’. Hope this is helpful. You are loved and accepted.”
I didn’t quote it but Colossians 2v9 says : ‛In him [Jesus] lives all the fullness of God in bodily form.’
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