Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Irresistible Revolution: living as an ordinary radical

I am reading a book called "The Irresistible Revoltion: living as an ordinary radical" written by Shane Claiborne. I have to say that after about the first 3 or 4 chapters, I needed to put the book down in an attempt to really reflect on where I am and how I am living. I love these statements that he makes;

"We can admire and worship Jesus without doing what He did. We can applaud what He preached and stood for without caring about the same things. We can adore His cross without taking up ours" - Shane Claiborne

"Jesus teaches that it is nothing extraordinary to love our friends and relatives, people who think like us. He says that even the pagans and sinners love their friends (Matt 5:46-47) But we are to be extraordinary; we are to love people who don't think and look like us, even our enemies" - Shane Claiborne

"When we look through the eyes of Jesus, we see new things in people. In the murderers, we see our own hatred. In the addicts, we see our own addictions. In the saints, we catch glimpses of our own holiness. We can see our own brokenness, our own violence, our own ability to destroy, and we can see our own sacredness, our own capacity to love and forgive. When we realize that we are both wretched and beautiful, we are freed up to see others the same way" - Shane Claiborne

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