“ As is typical of this God [of Israel], he calls his people into freedom in the most unlikely place. ”
To paraphrase Paul, God often uses the cheesy to confound the sophisticated. He regularly honors those who are confused about his leading as if they have nailed it.
~ Mark Galli
As Wade Clark Roof noted in his study, the 'weightlessness' of contemporary belief in God is a reality...for religious liberals and many evangelicals.
The Good News does not hinge on words like do or change but on the powerless, irrelevant, and frightening words like belief and faith.
God's love for us is uncoerced and so freely given that it does not demand a response. But so freely is it given that it creates freedom in the recipient, so that our response is not one of obligation or duty, nor the returning of a favor, but uncoerced love.