by Father Ian
'It seems that many church members today lack a developed sense of God’s overwhelming holiness and divinity and majesty. Instead, their attitude is nonchalant, casual, indifferent. What this almost certainly means, unfortunately, is that they have not yet had a significant encounter with God in their lives. If they had, they would have begun to realise how inappropriate casualness, nonchalance and indifference are.'
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In a recent short book Catholic theologian Ulrich Lehner 'reintroduces Christians
to the true God: not the polite, easygoing, divine therapist who doesn't ask much of us, but
the Almighty God who is unpredictable, awe-inspiring, and demands our entire lives.
(Click on the picture for the book's Amazon UK page.)