I’ve been thinking about this compelling quote from The Modern Post this morning. Commenting on the problem of syncretism within Christian culture, David F. Wells writes:
“It is one of the defining marks of Our Time that God is now weightless. I do not mean by this that he is ethereal but rather that he has become unimportant. He rests upon the world so inconsequentially as not to be noticeable. He has lost his saliency for human life. Those who assure the pollsters of their belief in God’s existence may nonetheless consider him less interesting than television, his commands less authoritative than their appetites for affluence and influence, his judgment no more awe-inspiring than the evening news, and his truth less compelling than the advertisers’ sweet fog of flattery and lies. That is weightlessness.”
–David F. Wells, God in the Wasteland (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1994), 88.
Nick Bogardus concludes: “Not only are those who don’t know Jesus lost, it’s clear that a growing number within the church are lost as well.”
Some food for thought today.
3 Comments on "A Weightless God"
Sobering thought. If we’re going to convince the people of OC that God is worth our worship, we better be happy with worshiping Him ourselves!
Totally!
I at first glance thought this said “weightloss” I was quite confused. tee hee.