Sinners in the Hands of a Loving God: The Scandalous Truth of the Very Good News

by Brian Zahnd

This is the good news that God is love. At our worst, at our most sinful, at our furthest remove from God and his will, God’s attitude toward us remains one of unwavering love. J. T. Chick and his menacing portraits of God are wrong.

As it turns out, God is neither menacing nor faceless. Jesus Christ is the face of the Father.

God is exactly how Jesus depicted him in his most famous parable: a father who runs to receive, embrace, and restore a prodigal son.

understand we can use the Bible as our palette to paint a monstrous portrait of God, but when we’re finished, if the image doesn’t look like Jesus, we have got it wrong!

Sometimes the Bible is like a Rorschach test: our interpretation of the text reveals more about ourselves than about God.