Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World

by Bob Goff

When my friends ask about my faith, I tell them that a long time ago my friend Doug told me about Jesus and said I could know Him. I didn’t start believing in Jesus just because Doug had shot me. But I’ve never stopped believing in Him even though I’ve caught some sniper fire from some religious people since then. There’s a passage in the Bible that says people who haven’t met Jesus are going to think the people who have met Jesus are crazy. I get that look sometimes, and it’s usually from people who don’t have a lot of creativity or haven’t experienced whimsy or haven’t played with BB guns or been shot once or twice. The people who slowly became typical have the greatest problem wrapping their minds around a dynamic friendship with an invisible, alive God.