Friday, April 4, 2008

READ THIS NOW

From my friend at Awaken Me, I was turned on to this parable. Click here. Read. Think. Comment. I will add more later.

3 comments:

Paul Hammond said...

Have pity on a dislexic, reading impaired blogger and summarize this for us.

Anonymous said...

Chris - thanks for passing this on.

Paul - You could order it especially since there's audio CDs... Pretty darn hard to summarize in my view, but I took a few quotes that I really liked and had it on my post; here they are as well:

“If we could control God, he’d turn out like us. Wouldn’t it be better to let him have his way with us so we become like him?”

“The hardest thing you’ll learn in this journey is to give up the illusion of controlling your own life or that you can manipulate God to bless you.”

“What I hope you’ll do is simply let God connect you with those brothers and sisters he wants you to walk with for now.”

“The church thrives where people are focused on Jesus, not where they are focused on church.”

“You are the church. Don’t be afraid to live in that reality.”

“This life can’t be all sewn up neatly in the intellect; it must be uncovered in the journey.”

“No institutional arrangement will ever contain all that the church is. Don’t look for it institutionally; look for it relationally.”

“Jesus saw the church as a reality, not an assignment for his followers to construct.”

“Real community is not something we fabricate by any means. It is a gift God gives.”

“That’s all Jesus every wanted - one flock drawn to him alone, and each helping lighten the load of others they find going the same direction as they are.”

Chris said...

Wow...don't think that I can do a better job that that. It really was a great read.