Welby's first purpose is to urge viewers to prayer: "As we pray, we engage with God in the struggle against human evil," he says.
If people of faith are going to engage in God's mission of healing, forgiving and restoring, we have to know the facts.
But I get to ask him; I have the opportunity to engage with God in a conversation where I share my burdens or excitement and that is pretty awesome.
In other words, saying "Yes" to God should lead a person to say "Yes" to looking for God and "Yes" to getting engaged in God's business -- the business of seeing to the flourishing of justice, peace, reconciliation, security, restoration, and forgiveness.
He engages the gods and his former allies the Titans in an epic series of battles across the Underworld and Olympus.
You can go to a Dodgers game for just a few bucks (unless you plan on eating or drinking in the stadium) or you can find a grassy knoll, set up a picnic, and engage in your God-given right to day drink.
Not only the serpent, but Adam, Eve and even God himself engage in varying degrees of deception, she points out (God tells Adam and Eve they'll perish right away if they eat the apple; they don't, unless you count getting evicted).
It's not that first God exists then God engages in a mission of love.
A consecrated image in a temple, or on a home altar, doesn't just depict a god; when you engage with it, it is the god, listening to you, looking at you, ready to serve and ready to be served.
