Searching for God knows what

Today's blog has nothing to do with Tanzania, except perhaps that life is a constant journey of discovering more about who God is and who we are, no matter where we happen to be- Tanzania included. I'm reading a book by Donald Miller at the moment called Searching for God Knows What. I'm only halfway through, but something about this passage just jumped out at me and I had to read it several times.

...That is the thing about life. You go walking along, thinking people are talking a language and exchanging ideas, but the whole time there is this deeper language people are really talking, and that language has nothing to do with ethics, fashion, or politics, but what it really has to do with is feeling important and valuable, What if the economy we are really dealing with in life, what if the language we are really speaking in life, what if what we really want in life is relational?

Now this changes things quite a bit, because if the gospel of Jesus is some formula I obey in order to get taken off the naughty list and put on a nice list, then it doesn't meet the deep need of the human condition, it doesn't interact with the great desire of my soul, and it has nothing to do with the hidden language we are all speaking. But if it is more, if it is a story about humanity falling away from the community that named it, and an attempt to bring humanity back to that community, and if it is more than a series of ideas, but rather speaks directly into this basic human need we are feeling, then the gospel of Jesus is the most relevant message in the history of mankind.

That's the kind of Christianity I want. God seeking to bring us back to relationship with Himself...now that's a gospel worth hearing.