Open Letter to Bruce Wilkinson #1.008
Chapter 1
The Everyday Miracle Territory
- “…imagine a lifestyle of such encounters, where God works through you in unexplainable ways to do a miracle—and on a regular basis. This kind of life is not only possible but is what God thinks of as normal when He thinks of you. You see, He did not place you on this earth to notice Him at work only once or twice in your whole life. He did not create you to consistently miss out on the wonder of His presence and power. The truth is, you were born to live a supernatural life doing God’s work by God’s power. You were born to walk out your door each morning believing that God will use you to deliver a necessary miracle today. This book will show you how.”
If I use my imagination, I can hear John Lennon now:
Imagine all the hope and wonder
After reading Bruce’s book
Miracles all over
You wouldn’t have far to look
Imagine all the people
Praising themselves aloud…whoo-OOO-ooo-oo-oo…
Why doesn’t the Bible promise me a lifestyle full of miracle encounters throughout my day-to-day existence?
“So how’d your day go today, Honey?”
”God and me did 18 miracles for folks this morning. I was caught up in meetings after lunch, so we didn’t get past 18.”
”Is that all?”
”Yep. Pretty slow day.”
Can you see the problem with this, Bruce? God calls His own to live out a life of faithful obedience to Him, not a life of everyday miracle encounters.
Can you imagine how a humble Mennonite or Amish believer would read this tripe? They’d probably shake their head and say, with a tear in their eye, “Only in America could this material be mistaken for biblical Christianity.”
Imagine what our Lord Jesus must think…
- “When it comes to miracles, most people I know see the world as divided in two. On the far left is a region we could call the Land of Signs and Wonders. In this land amazing miracles seem to happen a lot, although only for a select few…On the far right is the Land of Good Deeds. Nobody is putting on a show here. Fortunately, though, the place is full of good people watching out for each other, doing good works…Interestingly, in Good Deeds land a lot of people believe in miracles and spend time studying them. They just don’t expect to actually see any miracles, much less be a part of them on a regular basis. When they praise God for miracles, they’re grateful for things that occurred long ago. Good Deeds land doesn’t dazzle like Signs and Wonders, but things are more manageable there. More predictable.”
And just around the corner from the Land of Good Deeds is CandyLand, where Foozles and Neezles meet regularly to discuss the importance of belly-button lint.
COME ON, Bruce. Where does the Bible speak of any of these places? This smells an awful lot like The Dream Giver, where you paint God out to be the One who makes all your dreams come true.
Please admit publicly that you saw “The Wizard of Oz” too many times, repent, and plead with your publisher to recall this book that is so far removed from biblical truth that one wonders how it is that even got published in the first place. (Oh, yeah. I forgot. You’re Bruce Wilkinson. You write stuff that sells.)
