I just started reading 'Velvet Elvis' by Rob Bell and so far it is really great. He raises tons of questions and challenges the reader to 'repaint' Christian faith. Rob is a master of analogies, and so far, my favorite is the pool analogy.
"Truth always leads to more... truth. Because truth is insight into God and God is infinite and God has no boundaries or edges. So truth always has layers and depth and texture.
It's like a pool that you dive into, and you start swimming toward the bottom, and soon you discover that no matter how hard and fast you swim downward, the pool keeps getting... deeper. The bottom will always be out of reach." (Velvet Elvis, pg. 33)
This analogy is a cool way of showing the Martin Luther-esque principle of constantly reforming Christian spirituality without ever claiming to have 'arrived.'
T.J.
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