good book

“In my ministry as a vagabond evangelist, I have encountered shocking resistance to the God whom the bible defines as Love. The skeptics range from the oily, over-polite professionals who discreetly drop hints of heresy of universalism, to the Bible thumper who sees only the dusty, robust war God of the Pentateuch, and who insists on restating the cold demands of rule ridden perfectionism.

It goes on to say

“Our resistance to the furious love of God may be traced to the church, our parents and pastors, and life itself. They have hidden the face of a compassionate God, we protest, and favored a God of holiness, justice and wrath.”

Brennan Manning

The Ragamuffin Gospel