Comments on: Willow Creek, Dawkins, and Cloud

By: Randy Walberg

Randy Walberg — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 15:54:24 +0000

I’ve often considered picking up Dawkins’ book but others have demanded my attention. At our church, we wrestle with the fact that, while most people have no interest in the church, they have a tremendous interest in things spiritual and Jesus in particular.
We encounter very few true athiests. Unfortunately the church has lost a lot of credibility in recent (and not so recent) years because the reality is that people don’t appear to have any real connection with the God of the universe other than an intellectual assent to a list of beliefs and adhering to a lifestyle governed by rules and often just a rejection of the culture around them. Seeing true transformation and abundant life empowered by the Holy Spirit is very rare indeed.
Christianity has, unfortunately in many eyes been reduced to a form without the power that is claimed.
Fortunately, God can still speak today and despite people like Dawkins, the vast majority of people still believe in (a) God. Christians all too often just try to out-argue the athiest instead of living lives that show that God is real by the way they live.
If we could only figure this out, we would perhaps have the answer to the arguments without ever saying a word.

By: Bro. Bartleby

Bro. Bartleby — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 13:33:37 +0000

“In other words, if for some reason there were no Bible to read, we would still live as if there were good and evil to discover.”

Psalm 19 speaks to this.

And I am always amazed to listen to those like Dawkins that speak with such certainty about the absence of God, yet perhaps the most scientific of the scientists, the physicists, concede that well over 90% of ALL of the universe is in the realm of ‘black matter’ or in laymen’s terms, the unknown. So they have 10 pieces of the 100 piece jigsaw puzzle and still speak with such confidence. As Jesus said of the centurion, “What faith!”

By: Marty

Marty — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 17:04:08 +0000

As we were leaving the Fremont Fair yesterday, we passed a booth where several folks were lined up waiting to have a card reading. Sarah remarked that it was amazing that people really believe that stuff. I replied that, to them, us believing in God is just as silly.