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We know there’s something more. We sense it, we feel it, we know it. And we want it. We want an authentic spirituality.
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“"God, I can’t believe I get to live this life. "”
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“The church doesn't exist for itself; it exists to serve the world. It is not ultimately about the church; it's about all the people God wants to bless through the church. When the church loses sight of this, it loses its heart. This is especially true today in the world we live in where so many people are hostile to the church, many for good reason. We reclaim the church as a blessing machine not only because it is what Jesus intended from the beginning but also because serving people is the only way their perceptions of church are ever going to change. This is why it is so toxic for the gospel when Christians picket and boycott and complain about how bad the world is. This behavior doesn't help. It makes it worse. It isn't the kind of voice Jesus wants his followers to have in the world. Why blame the dark for being dark? It is far more helpful to ask why the light isn't as bright as it could be.”
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“The Christian faith is alive only when it is listening, morphing, innovating, letting go of whatever has gotten in the way of Jesus and embracing whatever will help us be more and more the people God wants us to be.”
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“Doctrine is a wonderful servant and a horrible master.”
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“God is bigger than any religion. God is bigger than any worldview. God is bigger than the Christian faith.”
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“Questions bring freedom. Freedom that I don't have to be God and I don't have to pretend that I have it all figured out. I can let God be God.”
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“If you study the Bible and it doesn't lead you to wonder and awe, then you haven't studied the Bible.”
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“The Bible tells a story. A story that isn't over. A story that is still being told. A story that we have a part to play in.”
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“If it is true, if it is beautiful, if it is honorable, if it is right, then claim it. Because it is from God. And you belong to God.”
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“The issue isn't so much taking Jesus to people who don't have him, but going to a place and pointing out to the people there the creative, life-giving God who is already present in their midst. It is searching for the things they have already affirmed as real and beautiful and true and then telling them who you believe is the source of all that. "I am here to tell you where I think it comes from..."”
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“The thought of the word "church" and the word "marketing" in the same sentence makes me sick.”
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“God isn't just interested in the covering over our sins; God wants to make us into the people we were originally created to be. It is not just the removal of what's being held against us; it is God pulling us into the people He originally had in mind when He made us.”
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“So this old nature of mine, the one that was constantly pulling me down and causing me to live in ways I wasn't created to live... has died. And, no matter how many times that old nature raises its ugly head and pretends to be alive, it is dead.”
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“It is not that we are perfect now or that we will never have to struggle. Or that the old person won't come back from time to time. It's that this new way of life involves a constant, conscious decision to keep dying to the old so that we can live in the new.”
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“For Jesus, eternal life wasn't a state of being for the future that we would enter into somewhere else; it is a quality of life that starts now.”
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“When I sin and the old person comes back from the dead for a few moments... I admit it. I confess it. I thank God I am forgiven. I make amends with anyone who has been affected by my actions. And then I move on.”
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“For Jesus, heaven and hell were present realities. Ways of living we can enter into here and now. He talked very little of the life beyond this one because he understood that the life beyond this one is a continuation of the kinds of choices we make here and now.”
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“For Jesus, this new kind of life in Him is not about escaping this world but about making it a better place, here and now. The goal for Jesus isn't to get into heaven. the goal is to get heaven here.”
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“Why blame the dark for being dark? It is far more helpful to ask why the light isn't as bright as it could be?”
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“It is when the church gives itself away in radical acts of service and compassion, expecting nothing in return, that the way of Jesus is most vividly put on display.”
First Sentence edit
In my basement, behind some bikes and suitcases and boxes, sits a Velvet Elvis.
Table of Contents edit
Welcome to My Velvet Elvis
Movement One: Jump
Movement Two: Yoke
Movement Three: True
Movement Four: Tassels
Movement Five: Dust
Movement Six: New
Movement Seven: Good
Epilogue
Endnotes
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Original Language: English
Publisher: Zondervan
Country: USA
Publication Date: July, 2005
ISBN: 978-0310263456
Page Count: 208
Publisher: Zondervan
Country: USA
Publication Date: July, 2005
ISBN: 978-0310263456
Page Count: 208
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- Dewey: 248
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