God pre-commits to me, promising a future and eternal life that will redeem the circumstances I now struggle with. . . . Faith means taking a vow for better or for worse, for richer or for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love God and cling to him no matter what. That involves risk, of course, for I may discover that what God asks of me conflicts with my selfish desires. Relating to the invisible God is a subjective thing, Yancey declared in the interview. I want the people who read this book to understand this.
Friendship is subjective.
And while we enjoy a personal friendship with the invisible God, we also need to remember that this same God is staggeringly awe-inspiring. We evangelicals need to recover our appreciation for the mysteries of our faith. Christians Fail Less. Evangelical theology has a narrow picture of how church life and faith life work. God, far from preferring comfortable, middle-class Western Christians, seems to prefer the ones on the fringe.