Ran across an interesting quote today that I’m still digesting. What do you have to say?
“Perhaps it is in this awareness of the ‘needs of the other’ that we, as an increasingly crabby church, can reconnect with the Jesus of the Whole Gospel, our Savior and lover of our souls; forgetting our own petty inconveniences and embracing the true pain and suffering that is going on around us. Teaching, showing, and demonstrating the compassion of the Good Samaritan could be the ounce of cure that is needed to prevent the spiritual burden of navel gazing upon our own boring and meaning deprived lives.”
This is one of the few books that deals with the heart of the issue. Do we really believe and focus on what Jesus has said or do we just agree with what he said and go on our own way not living the way Jesus has said his followers would live. Of all the “christian books” out there so many are, “American therapeutic moralistic Deism-pull yourself up by your bootstraps and be good for Jesus” This one challenges us to examine what is on the in our hearts and challenges us to ask what lies do I believe that have lead to that way of thinking and believing.
Incredible book.