How do you know God? That is to say, how did you come to know God in the way you know Him today? How do you know you know Him correctly? Is your faith understood as God wants you to understand it? Where do you learn about your faith? From who do you learn about your faith? And, are you so sure that the faith you hold so dear is how you would understand it if God Himself were teaching you? In his book, One Voice, Christian author Thomas Quinn Keller, amongst other things, takes us down the path of the modern Christian church and the many voices who play a role in influencing today's thinking and understanding of what we should be believing as Christians.
Our leaders today are well spoken, intelligent shepherds, formally trained in the church's institutions of higher learning to become pastors, speakers, and authors. They are our trusted shepherds, leading we the sheep in the way we should go. Or are they?
T. Q. Keller proposes in One Voice that the church, following the world's lead, has become saturated with so many voices coming from so many sources, and all sounding off at this same time in history, that it has all become just noise. So much so how can anyone know who to listen to? The author reasons that the church is lost, but that God in His omniscience, saw this coming and had a plan all along. He prophesied about it. And He provided His own solution. But is the church prepared to hear it? And does it really want a solution?
