If anybody didn't have a messiah complex, it was Jesus.
Enjoy mystery and speculation, but don't drift into dogma.
If the gospel isn't good news for everybody, then it isn't good news for anybody.
Celebrity seems totally at odds with authentic community and honest, real sorts of relationships.
The great German scholar Helmut Thielicke once said that a person who speaks to this hourโs need will always be skirting the edge of heresy, but only the person who risks those heresies can gain the truth.
What's interesting is, if you take the scientists and the theologians, the really good ones, they end up both filled with this wide-eyed sense of wonder and awe about look at this world we live in.