I'm tired of books.

I can't imagine how much I have spent on books relating to spiritual development. Fancy titles, authoritative authors, "relevant" topics. I think that I bought them because I was looking for something, an answer. Worse still, I have been looking for THE answer. The more I read, the more confused I got; what did I have to do to find the KoG?

At the Salvation Army training college, I received the basics of theology, doctrine and biblical studies. Through this, I began to see that God communicates in a huge number of ways, shaped by the history and perspectives of his listeners. The pursuit of a single unifying theory of God is flawed and we can only find our way by listening to him. We find him in the journey of faith that we undertake and not by reading books, less still by re-interpreting writers of a previous generation. I still respect them but less because of what they said but they were listening to God.

Should books be the way?

It's like the Kingdom of God...

...except that it isn't, of course.

First attempt at a blog. First attempt at a post on a blog. First attempt at living like I know what the KoG is supposed to be. Not that I have only just become a Christian (been one for years); not that I have only just become interested in living out the KoG; nor is it just because I have recently entered full time ministry.

It is because we have just one crack at what it means to live out the KoG. And I'd rather like to know if I'm getting it right.