Play Theology..... When Playing Theology

"It’s time for a theology of play. After five hundred years, the Protestant work ethic has not made us better disciples, only weary and cranky human beings struggling in vain to snag the unattainable dangling carrot we have named “assurance" or being driven forward by the damning stick of “eternity.".......

Despite reformers such as Luther, Wesley, Hus, and others who emphasized justification by faith alone, we still would rather think of ways of keeping ourselves “in line" rather than keeping ourselves “in love." How can we make the continental shift from finding our assurance not as attainment but as atonement? How can we find the assurance that comes not from “extreme productivity,” as one recent book title has it, but from trusting in the veracity of faith and the ferocity of God’s love?"
(The Well Played Life. Leonard Sweet)