“Figuring out concepts on our own is not always something we
enjoy doing. The path with the least resistance is usually what we are looking
for; the mindset is, “where is the shortcut to whatever it might be, and tell
me exactly how to get there.”
Yet, if our simplification of the gospel message is our main
way of communicating these ideas, our faith and the faith of those we lead will
be shallow, thus only wading in simple ideas of a complex God. True faith grows
and changes as we grow in our understanding of God, and this is faith and faith
crises: a challenge to our understanding and preconceptions of a complicated
and paradoxical God who is both knowable and unknowable at the same time.”[1]
