Randall Worley Questioning My Answers
Randall Worley talks about having a “beginner’s mind,” faith while embracing mystery, pioneering and the nature of heresy, the limits of language, approaching scripture through love, and the importance of remaining curious while understanding that God is not insecure or defensive when we raise hard questions.
Jason Clark is a relational theologian, storyteller, husband, and dad who believes the gospel is better than the last time we checked. He's the author of several books, the host of Rethinking God with Tacos, and lives in Cornelius, NC, with his wife, Karen, and their four kids.
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There are so many wonderful quotes in here that I wrote down. These little nuggets are so encouraging to me.
While I was listening, I had a thought about your comment, Jason, when you suggested that people in the Western church wonder why God would keep things a mystery and why did he hide himself. In that moment, I asked, yeah, why would a parent “hide themselves” from their child, or not reveal everything about themselves? But it was an easy answer, really. At least for me, I revealed more things about myself, my life, my past, my beliefs to my children as they got old enough and mature enough to grasp it. I mean, it really is a form of protection to not overload a child’s brain when they are young with content that they can’t possibly grasp. That would be setting them up for failure. I love my kids too much to give them information overload, especially on more sensitive topics that might hurt them in the process of understanding. I’ve always been quite open with my kids, but I have found it does take a level of maturity to know when to reveal more and when they are ready to hear it. I’d imagine God is even better at that than I am. His sensitivity to us is incredible, and even when he does reveal more, he does it in such a gentle way, as he did on the Road to Emmaus, not shocking them and giving them a heart attack to see his resurrected body, but teaching them first when they were calm and open. And later when their hearts were attune to him, they could recognize him now without fear. It’s a beautiful example of tender parenting.
That’s beautiful Tineke. I think, when we see God through the lens of family, we are seeing clearly. I love your parenting insight on the Emmaus Road journey. Yes! I think God is a good parent who knows how best to communicate so we might truly see and set free, encouraged, empowered, and so on.
Also, I love how you parent 🙂