Here is a quote from Miller. It doesn’t give you a sense of Miller’s unique voice, but it’s theology I really resonate with. Miller is responding to a fundamentalism he has formerly embraced, which led him try to “be good” on his own steam:
“Rick [Miller's pastor who made a suicide attempt before he understood God's grace] says that I will love God because he first loved me. I will obey God because I love God. But if I canot accept God’s love, I cannot love him in return, and I cannot obey Him. Self-discipline will never make us feel righteous or clean; accepting God’s love will. The ability to accept God’s unconditional grace and ferocious love is all the fuel we need to obey him in return [not sure I totally buy that last sentence].
Accepting God’s kindness and free love is something the devil does not want us to do. If we hear, in our inner ear, a voice saying we are failures, we are losers, we will never amount to anything, this is the voice of Satan trying to convince the bride that the groom does not love her. This is not the voice of God. God woos us with kindness, He changes our character with the passion of his love.”
