What is BoBQ?
Book of Big Questions is a series of meditative spiritual journals created while engaged in my own personal exploration of the Bible.
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WHAT IT IS
BoBQ began as a series of inquiries about what it truly means to know and love God.
When I opened the Bible for the first time, I knew I would have questions. But I had no idea how many. So, I began to write them down in a series of books.
BoBQ is now over 1,000 pages of questions, notes, thoughts, quotes, drawings, and random ideas about what God has revealed to us and what (I believe) He wants us to know.
These pages reflect many years of struggle, reflection, and joy as I worked through my own experience to know and love God through His Word.
I distinctly remember the first question I ever asked, a simple "Why?"
"Why did God make the heavens and the earth?"
WHAT IT IS NOT
BoBQ is not an apologetic. I am not trying to defend anything or convince anyone of anything. Each person's exploration of God is unique. No two paths are alike. But they are all pointed at the same destination.
Within BoBQ, you will find no comfortable platitudes. No soft words meant to comfort. Learning does not happen in still water.
None of the questions posed have "answers." God reveals Himself in His own time on His own terms.
Faith is a never-ending journey of inquiry, mystery, revelation, misunderstanding, doubt, and contemplation. And it nearly always leads to further inquiry. The process can certainly be both maddening and frustrating at times.
What I have learned is this: answers can be found in the questions.
WHAT TO EXPECT
The answer is… I don't know. Everyone's journey is their own.
Wading into the depth, complexity, mystery and majesty of the Bible is an inexplicable experience.
'For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,' declares the Lord.”
– Isaiah 55: 8-9 (NIV)
If done in earnest, with rigor and intensity, the experience is both profound and profoundly confusing.
For me, the study of the Bible has forced me to wrestle, not against God, but with Him. His nature is beyond my capacity to comprehend. And He reveals Himself in ways uniquely His own.
Now I know, I would not want it any other way.
My knowledge of God, my faith in God, and my love for God are strengthened with every new encounter with the Bible.
