Chris and Pete watch the lightning and ask is God at work in natural disasters? Are they acts of God? Are bad things God’s good work? Even when it blows up a church? Are natural disasters actually God and do we clutch too easily at miracles and fail to correctly understand what God is doing and why, and how? Perhaps we just love God being in control, even if it’s just the ‘way things are’? Whatever that is.
Is the knowledge of good and evil a problem? Isn’t this what got humanity thrown out of Eden? Chris and Pete ponder; does God not want us to know about good and evil or is God holding out on us? Is there a tree of doom scrolling? Has knowledge become more valuable than wisdom and how do we get it back to being wise?
‘Jesus loves the little children’, as the song says, but Chris and Pete question whether our churches kind of hide them away. How are children better at the kingdom life than adults? Do we put as much value on what our children think and know as Jesus does? What are we missing by leaving our children out of grown ups church life?
Why are you working? We were made to work, so are we just some kind of labouring machine? Chris and Pete look at labour and ask what was work meant to be? Why is work a grind when it was meant to be a God given joy? Can work make life happy and where do we find work working well?
Chris and Pete ask what is this ‘bible’ thing? Not an operator’s manual? Is it a user’s manual? Why can’t we get order by following the bible? And what is its ‘authority’? Why is it so often used for ‘bashing’ people and how did science make the bible central? Will the bible actually put itself out of business and what would our churches be like without the bible?