We had a weekend visit from a pastor friend we haven't seen for at least 15 years. An instant comfort zone and lots of interesting, two way conversation. He works part time with a conservative denomination, reads widely and says his views of God and theology are being challenged and stretched. One of his daughters is also being challenged this way, meeting God outside the box. She told her dad, "It's like being married to someone for years and then discovering they also do ballet."
We talked about spiritual assumptions or reactions becoming traditions served up as doctrine. I said that for the left brain/analytical/logic heavy churches we're both in we've painted our own Jesus. We keep hammering nails through the frame of our Jesus portraits, determined to secure our doctrine to its frame and to the wall. But could it actually be a graven image? We see a different portrait of Jesus and it looks like heresy to us. Why? Is it?
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