Sadly, I’d come to think that Christians were the found ones and other-than-Christian people were lost. But I was wrong. All of us no matter who we are can lose our way and need finding again.

Ask a philosopher or theologian, "Who is God?" and he or she will use words like incorporeality, omnipotence, omniscience, or omnipresence.

Ask Jesus, "Who is God?" and he will likely answer, "God is like" and then point you to something in the created world. Or he’ll tell a short story with clues about God in one of the characters.

Jesus often told stories to shine light on what is real. He could have made use of ‘normal’ language (x, y, z is the case), or spelled it out ‘scientifically’ (here are the reasons x, y, z are the case). After all, his closest friends often shouted their point of view, used physical force, or ran from trying. But, Jesus answers what fragments us, by us asking us to imagine what life would be like in a world where x, y, z are arranged in a way where… and so begins the journey.