Bob could not believe this. I just gotta connect with her. The stranger reached into his back pocket and pulled out a little book entitled The Four Laws to Get to Know Jennifer and went on to explain the little booklet. Bob sat there confused and frustrated, wondering why all this information was needed. The heart of the matter One of the most grievous errors the church has made is to reduce a relationship with Jesus Christ to a series of propositional statements.
Propositional statements are simple statements of truth.
The problem is that we tend to present these statements of truth to unbelievers as if by themselves they will convince people to affirm a belief in God and convert. We do the same in teaching believers. In so doing, we have taken Jesus' invitation to a love relationship and twisted it into a series of facts which need to be understood. If any of us who are married talked about our spouses using propositional statements, those listening to us would wonder what kind of a cold, nonrelational, disconnected person we were. I am in no way negating truth or Scripture.