okay so stop me if you’ve heard this a
rabbi a pastor and an imam walk into a
bar okay so it wasn’t barred with a
diner to discuss my show’s story of God
about who is God so the rabbi says I
think it’s really intimidating to just
start a conversation about God who is
God or where is God and how these
questions are related to each other in
the Christian tradition God Almighty is
the creator of all things what about
Trey who is God for to write God is
literally my friend he’s my inspiration
daily he’s my count so it’s got a funny
saying he because we know God is without
sex but he’s my everything I think one
important understanding within Judaism
is that faith in God is not requirement
to be a Jew I think of Jews as the god
wrestlers the people who wrestle with
who God is where God is not just in a
sanctuary but it’s within each one of us
in the Islamic context God is the
beginning and the end and all in between
yet and this is the part that I really
can’t wrap my mind around but it makes
sense to my heart at the core of my
being is that while God is in charge of
all things and all of what we would call
nature
he’s also intimately connected to each
one of us in a personal way
sometimes God speaks to us in the still
small voice and that can in some ways be
even more effective than the loud
booming voice that speaks of this
sensitivity that we have to God’s voice
and so I just believe that we got a nose
but we got eyes
we’ve got hands to touch but there’s
also something that got created within
us on the inside that allows us to
perceive distinct instructions God
doesn’t have actual hands in the world
so we can use our hands to do God’s work
in the world and that’s one way that we
can find God God is found in the effort
to help out someone in need to stand up
for justice in society and for the down
and out and the voiceless there’s a way
in which you can connect to God
I was following some of the trends of
young people who are describing
themselves as spiritual but not
religious I think young people can
connect to God through nature then to
sort of look at God through his creation
dealing with young people in particular
Millennials his faith has to be their
own it can’t be their grandma’s faith it
can’t be their pastors faith for a long
time in Christian faith we were afraid
to give them permission to wrestle I
think we should encourage people to ask
the challenging questions the big
questions and see what’s what settles in
their minds are there I agree because
we’re given this gift of curiosity and
that’s really a very unique
characteristic to human beings and the
way we use that curiosity is one way of
interacting with our Creator to try to
understand the world and who is God
where is God and answering those bigger
questions sometimes if we approach
people in terms of godliness instead of
God it’s easier to relate to other
people if we all were created in the
image of God and that means that any
individual that I run across regardless
of what their belief is or philosophy
I’m gonna be able to find a little bit
of God in them religion when done right
is spirituality with a little bit of
discipline right so I wonder if we
substitute the word practice or
discipline that’s a relatable word to
people I have a yoga practice I practice
basketball I practice playing the
clarinet and I don’t do most of those
things but if I what you could say about
themselves that I practice these things
and it all is just practice because in
the end we’re just human people who
cannot understand the divine but we can
seek to practice it helps you to
strengthen your character to strengthen
your spirituality and your connection to
God and so to your point summarize who
God is Wow okay God is the light of the
heavens and the earth God is love God is
in me
and God is in you God is hope and he is
bigger than anything we could never
fully describe he’s large and in charge
rabbi a pastor and an imam walk into a
bar okay so it wasn’t barred with a
diner to discuss my show’s story of God
about who is God so the rabbi says I
think it’s really intimidating to just
start a conversation about God who is
God or where is God and how these
questions are related to each other in
the Christian tradition God Almighty is
the creator of all things what about
Trey who is God for to write God is
literally my friend he’s my inspiration
daily he’s my count so it’s got a funny
saying he because we know God is without
sex but he’s my everything I think one
important understanding within Judaism
is that faith in God is not requirement
to be a Jew I think of Jews as the god
wrestlers the people who wrestle with
who God is where God is not just in a
sanctuary but it’s within each one of us
in the Islamic context God is the
beginning and the end and all in between
yet and this is the part that I really
can’t wrap my mind around but it makes
sense to my heart at the core of my
being is that while God is in charge of
all things and all of what we would call
nature
he’s also intimately connected to each
one of us in a personal way
sometimes God speaks to us in the still
small voice and that can in some ways be
even more effective than the loud
booming voice that speaks of this
sensitivity that we have to God’s voice
and so I just believe that we got a nose
but we got eyes
we’ve got hands to touch but there’s
also something that got created within
us on the inside that allows us to
perceive distinct instructions God
doesn’t have actual hands in the world
so we can use our hands to do God’s work
in the world and that’s one way that we
can find God God is found in the effort
to help out someone in need to stand up
for justice in society and for the down
and out and the voiceless there’s a way
in which you can connect to God
I was following some of the trends of
young people who are describing
themselves as spiritual but not
religious I think young people can
connect to God through nature then to
sort of look at God through his creation
dealing with young people in particular
Millennials his faith has to be their
own it can’t be their grandma’s faith it
can’t be their pastors faith for a long
time in Christian faith we were afraid
to give them permission to wrestle I
think we should encourage people to ask
the challenging questions the big
questions and see what’s what settles in
their minds are there I agree because
we’re given this gift of curiosity and
that’s really a very unique
characteristic to human beings and the
way we use that curiosity is one way of
interacting with our Creator to try to
understand the world and who is God
where is God and answering those bigger
questions sometimes if we approach
people in terms of godliness instead of
God it’s easier to relate to other
people if we all were created in the
image of God and that means that any
individual that I run across regardless
of what their belief is or philosophy
I’m gonna be able to find a little bit
of God in them religion when done right
is spirituality with a little bit of
discipline right so I wonder if we
substitute the word practice or
discipline that’s a relatable word to
people I have a yoga practice I practice
basketball I practice playing the
clarinet and I don’t do most of those
things but if I what you could say about
themselves that I practice these things
and it all is just practice because in
the end we’re just human people who
cannot understand the divine but we can
seek to practice it helps you to
strengthen your character to strengthen
your spirituality and your connection to
God and so to your point summarize who
God is Wow okay God is the light of the
heavens and the earth God is love God is
in me
and God is in you God is hope and he is
bigger than anything we could never
fully describe he’s large and in charge
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