searching for god knows what

right now, I'm reading Donald Miller's Searching for God Knows What - one of the two books I got for Christmas (the other of which is Louie Giglio's i am not, but i know I AM. I finished that one in a couple of days and it rocked my world so much, I already made my sister borrow it to read it).

here are a couple of quotes from Mr. Miller to ponder....

re: theology

It makes you wonder if guys like John and Paul and Moses wouldn't look at our systematic theology charts, our lists and [formulas] and scratch their heads to say, Well, it's technically true; it just isn't meaningful.

re: the gospel

But if it is more, if it is a story about humanity falling away from the community that named it, and an attempt to bring humanity back to that community, and if it is more than a series of ideas, but rather speaks directly into this basic human need we are feeling, then the gospel of Jesus is the most relevant message in the history of mankind.