Very few people wake up one morning and decide to change their theology. Changes in a person's belief system are seldom that self-conscious.

When God's wise and loving rule over you is replaced with self-rule, other people become your subjects.

Self-Sufficiency

For this reason we can say that we all live theologically; that is, the things we believe about God and ourselves are the foundation for all the decisions we make, all the actions we take, and all the words we speak.

When you seek to define who you are through those relationships, you are actually asking another sinner to be your personal messiah

Our culture abounds with hollow and deceptive theories of change that masquerade as biblical wisdom, often because they borrow some aspect of biblical truth. Yet they are hollow because they miss the center of biblical wisdom, which is Christ.

the reality our imagination embraces is the reality we will live by. If we are not captured by the truth of living in a deeply personal relationship with God, we will shrink our expectations and dreams down to the size of our own selfish wants, desires, and strategies.

Imagination opens things up so that we can grow into maturity—worship and adore, exclaim and honor, follow and trust. Explanation restricts and defines and holds down; imagination expands and lets loose. Explanation keeps our feet on the ground; imagination lifts our heads into the clouds. Explanation puts us in harness; imagination catapults us into mystery. Explanation reduces life to what can be used; imagination enlarges life into what can be adored.

Or do you move into conflict with a God-centered perspective?

We must, from the highest office in the land right down to the shoeshine boy in the airport, have a return to biblical basics.

Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week.

The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality of faith, and the lesson of romance.