“To be a christian is not to believe half a dozen impossible things before breakfast. It is to be intellectually [and experientially] open to the possibility that something is afoot, that the life you live may not be your own, that God really does mean to have God’s way with the world through you. It is to believe that God really is to determined to have you, come what may, that God has plans for you. We are here [under the dominion of the Kingdom of God] because God, in Jesus Christ, journeyed out and got us and put us here.”
William Willimon 2005 [emphasis mine]
