Not doing it for me...again

I am wading through this book for the second time. I am about twenty pages past where I fell off last time, and things aren't looking good.^M

Better focus then Blue Like Jazz, same great style

What Miller's musing about in this book is how we have a tendency as Christians to look for formulas and checklists in scripture and completely miss the point of it all which is the ideal of relationship. He suggests that we tend to look to scripture as a self-help book that gives us the steps to a better life or the steps to God and when we do that we are disappointed because the bible is void of formulas and instead talks mostly in terms of relationships (between us and God and us as humans). Bringing out this point, he mentions how we can tend to look to doctrinal statements and gospel tracts to give us the steps or bullet-points on how to know God when Christ was always talking about how to know God in metaphors of relationship like sheep to Shepherd or child to Father.^M

wonderful followup

I felt like this was a wonderful continuation for Blue Like Jazz, but I felt like some of it was a little over my head at some points. I did, however, feel as if it went even further into the relational aspect of Christianity, which is so poinent and beautiful. Again, Donald Miller really hits home with his personal stories that reflect how he knows and loves God.