This quote from Wilbur Rees is a devastating critique of so much of what people call "Christianity" today.
I would like to buy $3 worth of God, please – not enough to explode my soul or disturb my sleep, but just enough to equal a cup of warm milk or a snooze in the sunshine. I don’t want enough of him to make me love a foreigner or pick beets with a migrant worker. I want ecstasy, not transformation; I want the warmth of a womb, not a new birth. I want a pound of the Eternal in a paper sack. I’d like to buy $3 worth of God, please.
Lord, have mercy.
(ht, BW)
Sorry for the empty comment above – I actually wanted to say that I’m glad the price of God was cheaper than gas, but maybe it’s not.