Your God is Too Safe

Your God is Too Safe - Discussion 1

May 3rd, 2008 • stephenlawes • 4 comments • Related • Filed Under

I hope you are enjoying this month’s Christian Book Club book “Your God is Too Safe” as much as I am. I would like to hear what you think about “Borderland”. What does your Borderland look like? Buchanan talks about the ambivalence (feeling two different ways about the same thing) we feel towards God. Can you think of ways you are ambivalent when it comes to your relationship with God? Could you relate to any of the people that he describes (James, Daphne, Jean, or Ben)? How do you feel about the story of Uzzah in 2 Samuel 6. How does what happens to Uzzah impact how you feel about God? I love the fact that Buchanan quotes CS Lewis from The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. In my book the quote begins at the bottom of page 31. “Is he safe?….Course he isn’t safe. But he’s good”.

How about the lady who says “I am religious to. The family always asks me to pray for the weather when we go golfing”? What sort of impact are we really having on this world if we have marginalized God because of our own fears that He is not safe? Is our idea of a safe God keeping us from knowing God at all?

I look forward to your comments and questions!

Your God is Too Safe - Week 1

May 1st, 2008 • stephenlawes • 8 comments • Related • Filed Under

This month (May 2008) on Christian Book Club we will be reading Your God is Too Safe by Mark Buchanan. It is not to late to get the book and join us. I will put the link right here for you.

37748: Your God Is Too Safe Your God Is Too Safe
By Mark Buchanan

I am looking forward to reading and discussing this book with you. So far I have read the Forward, the Introduction, and the blurbs by other Christian writers and speakers. I think it is going to be an excellent read. Here is the reading plan for the book:

Week 1 - Chapters 1 - 6

Week 2 - Chapters 7 - 12

Week 3 - Chapters 13 - 17

Week 4 - Chapters 18 - 23

I would encourage you to begin making comments as soon as you start reading the book Don’t wait until you have completed the entire reading for the week. The Christian Book Club is much more fun when people are commenting often. If you haven’t commented before jump right in and just tell us you are reading the book with us. If you have any trouble figuring out how the comment section works go to the Contact page send me an email and I will help you through it.

I liked this statement from the Introduction, “Jesus walks the road with us. But we can look straight at Him and not recognize Him.” I think we often miss Jesus on the journey, even though He is right there with us. Get busy reading and commenting. I will be responding to your comments as soon as I can. If you don’t see your comments appear on the site immediately don’t worry, I have to approve your first comment and then your following comments will appear immediately. The approval process helps limit people trying to put spam on the site. Blessings!

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