The Gap Between God and Christianity

Download or read book The Gap Between God and Christianity written by Thomas M. Stallter and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What we fear most has ironically come upon us as Western individualists. We are being controlled by the invisible forces of culture and they have come between God and us. Silent but in the background of all we do and think, its influence cannot be overlooked. We condone and even encourage and champion the very things that create distance between our needs and God’s goodness, between our plans and his destiny for us, between our weakness and his strength. We have been deceived. Not only have we created distance between us, but we seldom free God from these cultural and personal expectations and let him speak for himself. We have locked God into our system and, in the end, distracted by our needs for social and personal survival. We must turn our eyes toward him, open our ears to his voice, and let him speak.