Randy Newman argues that perhaps we have minimized and diminished the gospel in our attempts to simplify it. Perhaps we have distorted the richness and wonder of its complexities and transcendence and in doing so have kept unbelievers from seeing their need to fall in worship of God who is greater than their comprehension.
Maybe we should try to “keep it complicated” because God’s Word and his gospel are complicated—not in the “confusing” sense of complicated but in the rich and beautiful and intellectually fulfilling and aesthetically pleasing and awe-inspiring ways. I think it’s worth the experiment—both for the deepening of our faith and the challenging of our friends’ searches.
Read the entire post at Keep It Complicated.
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