Jesus Wants to Save Christians

"Jesus wants to save us from making the good news about another world and not this one.

Jesus wants to save us from preaching a gospel that is only about individuals and not about the systems that enslave them.

Jesus wants to save us from shrinking the gospel down to a transaction about the removal of sin and not about every single particle of creation being reconciled to its maker.

Jesus wants to save us from religiously sanctioned despair, the kind that doesn't believe the world can be made better, the kind that either blatantly or subtly teaches people to just be quiet and behave and wait for something big to happen 'someday'."

- Rob Bell, "Jesus Wants to Save Christians"

Reason must not be our only tool, for it has faults

"We routinely disqualify testimony that would plead for extenuation.  That is, we are so persuaded of the rightness of our judgment as to invalidate evidence that does not confirm us in it.  Nothing that deserves to be called truth could ever be arrived at by such means" (Marilynne Robinson)

I think this is something that both Christians and Rationalists need to hear.  Too often Christians deny scientific fact because it doesn't fit with their narrow interpretations of Scripture, and too often Rationalists deny spirituality because it doesn't properly fit into their boxes.  We must begin to see that truth is so much deeper and wider than the narrow perspectives of many Christians and Rationalists.