On faith, love and stuff...

This morning I was hit (once again) with the reality that Christianity is so much more than right beliefs...

"To affirm the approach that I am advocating means we must accept that to be a Christian is to be born of love, transformed by love and committed to transforming the world with love. This is not somehow done by working ourselves up and trying to find the right way of thinking and acting, but rather in letting go and opening up to the transformative power of God. In so doing, we will not merely sit around describing God to the world, but rather, we will become the iconic spaces in which God is made manifest in the world.
Peter Rollins
How (Not) to Speak of God (p 71)

I am in love with the image of followers of Christ as "iconic spaces". There is a danger in describing yourself by what you are not. Having said that, it troubles me that so often the church seems more concerned with describing God, or God life, than in actually living, creating, healing, feeding, inspiring, going, giving, dancing, somersaulting, loving,...