Friends, writing about God/Jesus is an extremely challenging task. Why? Once something is written and shared it can never totally be taken back - even if you later find that parts of it were wrong. Understand? Once a piece is carefully researched and crafted and shared, new insights sometimes come around making Christian writers wish that certain parts had never been written.
Obviously, everyone knows that this happens, but guess what? God still holds writers accountable for our words and actions, and the effect and consequences they have upon others - and the light they shed on our Holy God Himself. Scripture says that teachers are more accountable than others, and when a writer is writing he or she is also teaching and explaining.
The task of Christian writing is further complicated by the fact that no matter how well of a job we do of praising and sharing the grace, mercy, love, hate, long-suffering, wrath, righteousness, nature, heart, and mind of God, we can never do Him justice - NEVER. His holiness is beyond comprehension. His justice is absolute, whether it be in loving or hating, healing or killing.
God is far more glorious and greater than our mere human words could ever present. In that sense we are also accountable. We are unworthy of the subject about which we write, apart from the precious blood of Jesus Christ, and His sacrifice for those that believe.
Yes, we Christian writers are a strange lot. We write constantly about a subject that becomes more complex the more we study about IT. Writing about God must be done reverently and carefully. Motives must be analyzed. It is extremely easy to write about the Bible and Christianity without God the Father even being in a particular piece. Our writing must demonstrate that we know God too, and not just ABOUT God.
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