Often I find that I have thoughts and then discover someone can express them a lot better than I can.

If you asked any Christian before the birth of the modern era and the Enlightenment, “what is the foundation of Christianity?”, they would say “Jesus Christ.” If you asked many Christians that same question today in the post-Enlightenment world, they would respond, “the Bible.”

Micheal Gungor and while you are there check out part 1

This is one of these situations. Mr Gungor seems, from his blog posts, to be getting some flak from churches/people/movements who have a different way for reading the bible. The problem arises if the bible is at the centre of your belief system. Usually if that is the case, your reading of the bible become the only way and you turn into a holy huddle which is the only preserver of the truth whilst everyone else is wrong.

I like Jesus and the problem with Jesus is summoned up well by C. S. Lewis in the Lion, Witch and Wardrobe

He'll be coming and going" he had said. "One day you'll see him and another you won't. He doesn't like being tied down -- and of course he has other countries to attend to. It's quite all right. He'll often drop in. Only you mustn't press him. He's wild, you know. Not like a tame lion.

Jesus can't be bound, place on a shelf and shaped to your will, He's wild, you know.