New prophets are rising up who try to change the future, not just predict it. There is a movement bubbling up that goes beyond cynicism and celebrates a new way of living, a generation that stops complaining about the church it sees and and becomes the the church it dreams of. And this little revolution is irresistible. It is a contagious revolution that dances, laughs, and loves.
Little people with big dreams are reimagining the world.
The point is not to give you all of the answers but to stir up some of the questions. Some of us haven't even asked the right questions, or found a church that would let us.
Most good things have been said far too many times and just need to be lived.
May we continue to feed each other hope as we dance God's revolution together.
It becomes hard to know who Jesus really is, much less to imagine that Jesus ever laughed, cried, or had poop that smelled.
I came to realize that preachers were telling me to lay my life at the foot of the cross and weren't giving me anything to pick up.
...suffocated by Christianity but thirsty for God.
I wanted to see passion.
reckless, unguarded worship...like they believed in heaven and hell [and] cried and worshiped like they were actually encountering God.
At least they have a sense of urgency and passion and live as if what they are saying is true (religious fanatics who stand on street corners)
I wanted miracles to be normal again. He told me that we have insulated ourselves from miracles. We no longer live with such reckless faith that we need them.
We saw a homeless man lay a pack of cigarettes in the offering plate because it was all he had.
Over and over, when I ask God why all of these injustices are allowed to exist in the world, I can feel the Spirit whisper to me, "You tell me why we allow this to happen. You are my body, my hands, my feet."
I felt so thirsty for God, so embarrassed by Christianity, and so ready for something more.
"We are called not to be successful but to be faithful." -- Mother Theresa
tension between efficiency and faithfulness.
"It is not how much you do, but how much love you put into doing it." -- Mother Theresa
Namaste means "I honor the Holy One who lives in you."
What had lasting significance were not the miracles themselves but Jesus' love...It wasn't that Jesus healed a leper but that he touched a leper, because no one touched lepers.
A new community marked by interdependence and sacrificial love.
People always want to define you by what you do. I started saying, "I'm not too concerned with what I am going to do. I am more interested in who I am becoming. I want to be a lover of God and people." What we do is not nearly as important as who we are.
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.
