I probably don't believe in that god either

In chapter 14 of Philip Yancey's 'The Jesus I Never Knew,' he shares this from George Buttrick, a former chaplain at Harvard:  

Students would often come into his office, plop down on a chair and declare, "I don't believe in God." Buttrick would give this disarming reply: "Sit down and tell me what kind of God you don't believe in. I probably don't believe in that God either." And then he would talk about Jesus, the corrective to all our assumptions about God.

I love that. I wish I'd have thought of that in countless conversations I've had.

I know there is apparently some concern with an "only Jesus" theology, but I also know Paul called Jesus "the image of the invisible God," and "...God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him." 

Yancey says Jesus presents a God with skin on... "whom we can take or leave, love or ignore. In this visible, scaled-down model we can discern God's features more clearly."

Personally, I like that. I'll take the risk of thinking the Jesus we see in Scripture is who God wants us to know and believe in.