{"id":308,"date":"2008-04-24T16:44:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-24T16:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/bibleandculture\/2008\/04\/quote-of-the-day--3-dollars-worth-of-god.html"},"modified":"2008-04-24T16:44:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-24T16:44:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-3-dollars-worth-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/bibleandculture\/2008\/04\/quote-of-the-day-3-dollars-worth-of-god.html","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day– $3 dollars worth of God"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It has been said that too many Americans have been innoculated with a slight case of Christianity that is preventing them from getting the real thing. Perhaps this has something to do with how much of God people really want. Here is a quote from Wilbur Rees to make you think:<\/p>\n

“I would like to buy $3 worth of God, please – not enough to
explode my soul or disturb my sleep, but just enough to equal a cup of
warm milk or a snooze in the sunshine. I don’t want enough of him to make
me love a foreigner or pick beets with a migrant worker. I want ecstasy,
not transformation; I want the warmth of a womb, not a new birth. I want
a pound of the Eternal in a paper sack. I’d like to buy $3 worth of God,
please.”<\/p>\n

I especially like the line ‘I want the warmth of the womb, not a new birth’. This, I am afraid, is exactly what people want out of their worship and church experiences. Not something that demands them to pick up a cross, make major sacrifices and follow Jesus. Rather, they want something that makes them comfortable with who they already are and how they already are. They want acceptance as they are, not repentance so they can be who they ought to be. Think on these things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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