Wednesday nights is an informal Question and Answer time at the First Church of God, in which I try to tackle some of the tough issues that people want to deal with.
One of my favorite invitations to people who want to talk about the great mysteries about God is to join the “Confessional Theologian” community. I’m a “Confessional Theologian” which means that I confess that I am not God but only a human being trying to understand God. Therefore, anything I am about to say or conclusion I am about to draw will only be a limited understanding of God, and not God Himself.
I wish to invite you to the community of “Confessional Theologians” as well. This humble community of people who don’t think to much about what they think are primarily on a search of a functional truth that enables us to relate to God while not being to arrogant about making God conform to our agendas.
Some would be fearful about such a simple practical approach to our conversations about God, but that does not mean anything goes. A ‘confessional theologian’ is bound by reason, universal truth, and the revelation of God’s word as found in the Holy Bible. We are true to our Lord Jesus Christ and lean heavily upon the Holy Spirit to open our minds to the vastness of God’s glory.
If we are going to take God seriously, we are going to have to take ourselves less seriously. Our attempts to define Him will always fall short of His true self.
Yet I believe, even as humans, we can grasp some of the vastness of God, enough to have a personal relationship with Him.
During the Easter season I marvel that Christ could lay aside his might, power and glory to reduce Him self to a man and walk among us even to death on the cross. He was fully God and fully man. What we saw in Christ was the essence of God’s nature which does not depend on upon ultimate power for His sense of self. Christ could lay all that aside and still be fully God.
I don’t think I will ever understand what all knowing, all powerful, and all present means since I’m rather limited in these areas. But I know better what real love, hope and faith since Jesus came and revealed it in His life and death. That is good confessional theology.
Have a blessed Easter walking humbly before the Lord and led by the Holy Spirit.
