Not Even God: The Curious Partnership of God and Man

Not Even God defies categorization. Like the bestselling novel The Shack, one might think of it as a theology book staking ground in the current debate over relational theology. Rocine focuses on Bible passages where the Lord himself changes his mind and makes predictions that then do not happen. In the first chapter, “The Grieving Mother,” he interprets Jesus’ familiar prayer, “Thy will be done,” as an admission that God’s will is not done often enough.
But this “theology book” also surprises by coupling compelling stories Christians battling to believe with the biblical commentary. A mother loses her twenty-one year old son in a car wreck, children grow up without their murdered father, and a young family seeks refuge from marauding Muslim extremists. Other stories feature battles with cancer, divorce, and addiction as they find God’s love and intervention in their lives. At the center of this circle of friends is Rocine, who writes Not Even God after more than twenty years of serving at Living Word. His informal narrative style is stripped of Christian jargon and aimed at a popular audience rather than the academic.