When our inner child is not nurtured and nourished, our minds gradually close to new ideas, unprofitable commitments, and the surprises of the Spirit. Evangelical faith is bartered for cozy, comfortable piety. A failure of nerve and an unwillingness to risk distorts God into a Bookkeeper, and the gospel of grace is swapped for the security of religious bondage.
“Unless you become like little children …” Heaven will be filled with five-year-olds.
Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel
Travels from Ur 
Not thoughts regularly heard within the church – I so agree…
This book by Brennan Manning is one of the most profound I have read for a while.
And isn’t it rather nice to have your thinking challenged in GOOD ways for once? Sounds interesting…