Worship

The Dubious Wonderworkers

by Terry Barlow
12/25/18
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Fallen humanity is the only known species that can take a dynamic personal encounter with the living Creator God, and transform it into something unrecognizable: a boring, irrelevant and meaningless experience. Behold! It is a backwards wonder that only humanity can work: not plain water to the most wonderful wine, but dubious reverse wonderworkers transmuting the most wonderful wine into the most ordinary water!  That is religion in the worst sense of the word, or,  shall we say, religiousity at its core. But when this living encounter with God is current and exciting and meaningful, it is not because we made it that way by something we did, except to allow God to be God, in us, for us, around and among us. In fact, however good our intentions, the less we put our own hands to it the better.