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"...I am learning to believe better things. I am learning to believe that other people exist, that fashion is not truth; rather, Jesus is the most important figure in history, and the gospel is the most powerful force in the universe. I am learning not to be passionate about empty things, but to cultivate passion for justice, grace, truth, and communicate the idea that Jesus likes people and even loves them."
--Donald Miller [Blue Like Jazz]
I stole that, but it's a nice little quote. I don't like stealing quotes, or putting them in my livejournal, but I think it's a pretty acute statement of the happenings of late in the Kevin Greenlees camp. Not that I'm actually becoming this quasi-zealous intellectual that actually grasps the span of Christ's love, glory, sacrifice, nor even that I'm abandoning a lust for possession of materials and reputation, but I'm learning that that's fruitless. I'm learning to learn that this is what I want and need. Does that make sense?
Also, I'm learning that the church really is the body of Christ and I'm acting like it's the disembodied corps of actors and deceivers, which I guess it can be but if I'd just look a little deeper and engage it, maybe I'd find more than conversation and reputation.
I'm ingenuine.
--Donald Miller [Blue Like Jazz]
I stole that, but it's a nice little quote. I don't like stealing quotes, or putting them in my livejournal, but I think it's a pretty acute statement of the happenings of late in the Kevin Greenlees camp. Not that I'm actually becoming this quasi-zealous intellectual that actually grasps the span of Christ's love, glory, sacrifice, nor even that I'm abandoning a lust for possession of materials and reputation, but I'm learning that that's fruitless. I'm learning to learn that this is what I want and need. Does that make sense?
Also, I'm learning that the church really is the body of Christ and I'm acting like it's the disembodied corps of actors and deceivers, which I guess it can be but if I'd just look a little deeper and engage it, maybe I'd find more than conversation and reputation.
I'm ingenuine.