Encouraging - Tame

C. S. Lewis described Aslan, the Christ figure in the Chronicles of Narnia, as a “not so tame lion.” The reason so many of us have lost our childhood curiosity is that we’ve been tamed. Our world is populated with domesticated grownups who would rather settle for safe, predictable answers instead of wild, unpredictable mystery. Faith has been reduced to a comfortable system of beliefs about God instead of an uncomfortable encounter with God. Childlike faith understands that God is as capable of destroying us as He is of saving us. Risky curiosity breaks from the safety of comfort of a tame faith and ventures into the terrifying presence of a “not so tame” God.

Michael Yaconelli, Dangerous Wonder (NavPress, Colorado Springs, CO: 2003), 40.

Encouraging - Dullness

The most critical issue facing Christians is not abortion, pornography, the disintegration of the family, moral absolutes, MTV, drugs, racism, sexuality, or school prayer. The critical issue today is dullness. We have lost our astonishment. The Good News is no longer good news, it is okay news. Christianity is no longer life changing, it is life enhancing. Jesus doesn’t change people into wild-eyed radicals anymore, He changes them into “nice people.”

Michael Yaconelli, Dangerous Wonder (NavPress, Colorado Springs, CO: 2003), 22.