Removing Mystery From Our Faith

Out of Ur has a post titled, "Is Jesus the Answer or the Question?: rediscovering the role of mystery in our faith". An excerpt of a new book by Ed Gungor - Religiously Transmitted Diseases : finding a cure when faith doesn't feel right (Nelson Ignite, 2006).

He says answering all the questions turns our faith into a dead religion.

I think Christianity is supposed to be the unreligion. That’s because the strictness and predictability of religion causes simple, pure faith to become diseased. If not stopped, religion can even kill living faith. And dead things just aren’t very interesting.

Religion may be attractive on one level, but it always strives to remove all the mystery that congests life. It has answers for everything, because questions are way too untidy. “Jesus is the answer.” Right? But what if Jesus isn’t the answer? What if He is the question?

Do we try to answer all the questions our teenage friends have, or do we let them see us dumbfounded by a faith that is so unbelievable?

Who is this that even the wind and the waves obey him?