The Evolution of God

No, God does not change, but He evolves in the hearts of his followers. With every day that passes we change, and our faith brilliantly adapts. Faith is fluid, a shape-shifter, a dialogue and not a debate, a series of questions that lead to a single answer. A truth impervious to the arrows of a lie. I am a shape shifter, and so are you. How will our shapes change in the future? This is the story of my evolution and the evolution of my God.

1. Donald Miller 2. Mark Driscoll 3. Mel White 4. Rick McKinley 5. Brennan Manning (If a "*" is next to the name, they have been met)

“Love thy neighbor, too, albeit that he be of a different religion. Thou thinkest thyself to be of that sect which is the nearest to the truth, and thou hast hope that thou and thy compeers who think so well, shall certainly be saved. Thy neighbor thinketh differently. His religion thou sayest is unsound and untrue; love him, for all that. Let not thy differences separate him from thee. Perhaps he may be right, or he may be wrong; he shall be the rightest in practice, who loves the most. Possibly he has no religion at all. He disregards thy God; he breaks the Sabbath; he is confessedly an atheist; love him still. Hard words will not convert him, hard deeds will not make him a Christian. Love him straight on; his sin is not against thee, but against thy God. Thy God takes vengeance for sins committed against himself, and leave thou him in God’s hands. But if thou canst do him a kind turn, if thou canst find aught whereby thou canst serve him, do it, be it day or night. And if thou makest any distinction, make it thus: Because thou art not of my religion, I will serve thee the more, that thou mayest be converted to the right; whereas thou art a heretic Samaritan, and I an orthodox Jew, thou art still my neighbor, and I will love thee with the hope that thou mayest give up thy temple in Gerizim, and come to bow in the temple of God in Jerusalem. Love thy neighbor, despite differences in religion.” (Love Thy Neighbor- Aug. 9th, 1857)

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