I don’t know the blogger, Rebel God, but I am always captivated by his posts. He/She puts the Good News into relational terms better than most. Here are a couple of quotes, and the link so you can visit.
“Isn’t God the one who teaches us to forgive and love our enemies? So if that’s true, then why would God act the opposite? I’m sure you’ve heard people say it is because he takes sin so seriously, but really doesn’t that in fact trivialize sin? Doesn’t it make God look petty and unjust? That is one of the biggest reasons people leave the faith, that and all the suffering and injustice in the world. In short, the major reason people leave Christianity is because of moral outrage, because sin–real sin, the kind that deeply wounds people, the kind that destroys lives–is not being taken seriously enough.”
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“That is the urgency that Jesus preaches: stop hurting each other, stop with your stupid wars and killing in God’s name, stop with all the condemnation and hatred! Learn the way of the cross, the way of overcoming evil with good, the way of enemy love. That is a way that is not just some trivial religious concern which seems so tangential to life, it is about real stuff, life and death stuff, quite literally.”
http://www.therebelgod.com/2011/04/love-wins-rethinking-gospel.html
