Good News Quote #20

From Chapter Three, Why You Don't Have to "Let God Take Control": Or, How Obedience Is for Responsible Adults.

Sometimes the logical contradictions lead to contortions that really are very hard to ignore. Take for example another thing you're supposed to say when you're playing this game. Whenever you aim to do some good deed, you have to try not to do it "in your own strength." So it seems there is this special way of doing things -- not using your own strength -- and that's what Christians are supposed to do. So how do you do it? My students have tried to explain it by saying, "you have to do it... through God." That captures the weirdness of the game about as well as possible. You're actually doing it all, but you're doing it through God. Which seems to mean: you're doing it by making God do it -- that's how you have to do it -- and you do that not by doing it, but by "letting" God do it. Get it?


I don't.