Most people really have no problem with the idea of a creator God. Their question is just what is this God like, how can I know about him, how can I know him.
If the answers to prayer are merely what God wills all along, then why pray?
All my books are very spiritual. I started out writing what was most natural to me, many years ago, which is religious, because I grew up in the jungle, the son of missionaries. I want to know, is God real? What's a priest's role?
What we're really after is trying to understand what's in the mind of God.
Sometimes God answers our questions with questions.
God in His wisdom made the fly And then forgot to tell us why.
The uninitiated have real questions and valid concerns over how the things of God appear to them.
If you're really thinking prayer can stop rockets or bullets, you have to ask why some people do get hit by rockets or bullets. Are they people who no one prayed for? Are they people who God just didn't like? I don't think so.
All I did was collect a few of the questions I've been asked through the years, write up a brief response and put them in this publication. As a pastor, you get asked questions and receive emails. Many of them I had answered, but just in conversation. So we kind of re-crafted the question and answered it. It turned out to be an interesting exercise. I hope it's encouraging for people.
