It's important to listen to non-believers to understand how they understand God. Many people see God as a disinterested and detached being who doesn't understand our pain.
This video from an old Joan Osbourne song has a soul-sadness to it but describes the sense of many folks who are not Christ-Followers. It asks the question "what if God was one of us?"
Actually he was...
The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth. - John 1:14
For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form - Colossians 2:9
Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners-of whom I am the worst. -1 Timothy 1:15
(Speaking of Jesus) For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are-yet was without sin. - Hebrews 4:15“Yeah Yeah God is Great, Yeah Yeah God is Good” – Retelling and recontextualizing the eternal story of His goodness and greatness to the current set of cultures is A Mission From God. The story don't change but the telling must.
