Walker Shurz on People’s Wrong Perceptions of God

Walker Shurz, in Safe Harbour Conference 2008, spoke about the different personas that we typically attribute to God:

There’s Grandfather God – He’s nice but He’s old, tired and out of touch. When we pray to Him we have to really shout.

There’s Schoolteacher God – we really want to get good grades and make Him happy. You want Him to say, “Well done!”

There’s Judge God – everything about Him is right…and wrong and He’s watching and taking very good notes.

There’s Mystical God – He’s strange and a little bit weird and makes us do weird things in church. You never know what Mystical God is going to do next, because no-one can understand Him.

There’s Distant God – He made the world but He’s very far away. He’s interested when you get baptised, and certainly at your funeral. But He’s too far away to be involved in your everyday life. He’s running a world of over six billion people – so how can He be interested in you?

Safe Harbour Conference 2008 is for me, one of the most honest and informative teaching series I’ve ever heard. It is freely downloadable from Bertie Brits’ website Dynamic Love Ministries.