God Is Dangerous

Jonah 1:2 “Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me.” (NIV)

Daniel 3:17-18 If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God we serve is able to deliver us from it, and he will deliver us from Your Majesty’s hand. But even if he does not, we want you to know, Your Majesty, that we will not serve your gods or worship the image of gold you have set up.” (NIV)

Matthew 2:16 When Herod realized that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was furious, and he gave orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, in accordance with the time he had learned from the Magi. (NIV)

Love is Dangerous

John 15:13 Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. (NIV)

John 15:14 You are my friends if you do what I command. (NIV)

Colossians 3:13-14 Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity. (NIV)

Enemy Loving God = God is Dangerous

Luke 6:27-28 But to you who are listening I say: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you. (NIV)

Romans 12:21 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. (NIV)

Colossians 1:13-20 God rescued us from dead-end alleys and dark dungeons. He's set us up in the kingdom of the Son he loves so much, the Son who got us out of the pit we were in, got rid of the sins we were doomed to keep repeating. We look at this Son and see the God who cannot be seen.

Colossians 1:13-20 We look at this Son and see God's original purpose in everything created. For everything, absolutely everything, above and below, visible and invisible, rank after rank after rank of angels — everything got started in him and finds its purpose in him.

Colossians 1:13-20 He was there before any of it came into existence and holds it all together right up to this moment. And when it comes to the church, he organizes and holds it together, like a head does a body. He was supreme in the beginning and — leading the resurrection parade —

Colossians 1:13-20 He is supreme in the end. From beginning to end he's there, towering far above everything, everyone. So spacious is he, so roomy, that everything of God finds its proper place in him without crowding. Not only that, but all the broken and dislocated

Colossians 1:13-20 pieces of the universe — people and things, animals and atoms — get properly fixed and fit together in vibrant harmonies, all because of his death, his blood that poured down from the Cross. (MSG)

Mark Labberton The Dangerous Act of Worship To worship (love) God with this trajectory is to take hold of the fifty-thousand-volt line of the Spirit’s power in the world. It’s definitely not safe.

Annie Dillard On the whole, I do not find Christians, outside of the catacombs, sufficiently sensible of conditions. Does anyone have the foggiest idea what sort of power we so blithely invoke?

Annie Dillard Or, as I suspect, does no one believe a word of it? The churches are children playing on the floor with their chemistry sets, making up a batch of TNT to kill a Sunday morning.

Annie Dillard It is madness to wear ladies hats and straw hats and velvet hats to church; we should all wear crash helmets. Ushers should issue life preservers and signal flares;

Annie Dillard They should lash us to our pews. For the sleeping god may wake someday and take offense, or the waking god may draw us out to where we can never return.