On the Christian
Life and the Church:
“And that’s one of the things you notice about Jesus in the
Gospels, that He is always going around saying, ‘You have heard it said such
and such, but I tell you some other thing.’ If you happened to be a person who
thought you knew everything about God, Jesus would have been completely
annoying.” -Donald Miller from his book
“Searching for God Knows What”
“As a Christian, I feel that I am not capable of modeling
good behavior or a good Christian walk to others on a consistent basis.
Frankly, the only thing I find myself doing consistently is sinning. So, really
the only thing I can model for others is brokenness and God’s abundant grace in
forgiving me again and again.” -Susan
Siami
“What do we see in Jesus’ disciples? We see doubt; we see back-talking, we see
them having their own plans, not Jesus’, and we see Jesus loving them the whole
time” -Jack Miller World Harvest Missions
video on “Grace Parenting”
“Most of the descriptions of the victorious life do not
match the reality of my own. Hyperbole,
bloated rhetoric, and grandiose testimonies create the impression that once
Jesus is acknowledged as Lord, the Christian life becomes a picnic on a green
lawn; marriage blossoms into connubial bliss, physical health flourishes, acne
disappears, sinking careers suddenly soar… The New Testament depicts another picture
of the victorious life: Jesus on Calvary . The
Biblical image of the victorious life reads more like the victorious limp.” -Brennan
Manning from his book, “The Ragamuffin
Gospel”
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