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Never Pray Again: Lift Your Head, Unfold Your Hands, and Get to Work
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“Of course, sheep require a shepherd. Due to the domestication process, sheep can no longer survive on their own. They are optimized for what we want from them and unable to defend themselves or respond to challenges. We have made them that way over a long period of time. In a way, the sheep do flourish—they are born and live and die, they don’t have to worry about predators most of the time, and they are led to the greenest pastures. In a similar way, many Christians are insulated by Christian subculture, so that they only have to listen to Christian music and read Christian books and go to Christian events—and not even broadly Christian, but—in the U.S. at least—very specifically conservative Evangelical Christian. These Christians are also led to the green pastures—megachurches and bestselling “spiritual” books and charming pastors—and, in a very limited way, perhaps, they flourish in this domestication. Over generations, whole communities can forget that they were ever free and wild.”
― Never Pray Again: Lift Your Head, Unfold Your Hands, and Get To Work
― Never Pray Again: Lift Your Head, Unfold Your Hands, and Get To Work
“How we behave is what we believe and what we do is who we are.”
― Never Pray Again: Lift Your Head, Unfold Your Hands, and Get To Work
― Never Pray Again: Lift Your Head, Unfold Your Hands, and Get To Work
“The apostle Paul famously said of love that it “always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.”5 He was speaking at the time of loving that person in the church that you passionately dislike and never agree with, not about romantic love. The key characteristic of love in Paul’s ode is its excessiveness. No student of moderation, love always protects, even when doing so means giving up its own life for the beloved. Love always trusts, even when it has been repeatedly betrayed. Love always hopes, even when it is obviously ridiculous to do so. Love always perseveres, even after death.”
― Never Pray Again: Lift Your Head, Unfold Your Hands, and Get To Work
― Never Pray Again: Lift Your Head, Unfold Your Hands, and Get To Work
“if God only interceded with those who deserve it, God would not intercede for any of us.”
― Never Pray Again: Lift Your Head, Unfold Your Hands, and Get To Work
― Never Pray Again: Lift Your Head, Unfold Your Hands, and Get To Work
“Of course, sheep require a shepherd. Due to the domestication process, sheep can no longer survive on their own. They are optimized for what we want from them and unable to defend themselves or respond to challenges. We have made them that way over a long period of time. In a way, the sheep do flourish—they are born and live and die, they don’t have to worry about predators most of the time, and they are led to the greenest pastures. In a similar way, many Christians are insulated by Christian subculture, so that they only have to listen to Christian music and read Christian books and go to Christian events—and not even broadly Christian, but—in the U.S. at least—very specifically conservative Evangelical Christian. These Christians are also led to the green pastures—megachurches and bestselling “spiritual” books and charming pastors—and, in a very limited way, perhaps, they flourish in this domestication. Over generations, whole communities can forget that they were ever free and wild.”
― Never Pray Again: Lift Your Head, Unfold Your Hands, and Get To Work
― Never Pray Again: Lift Your Head, Unfold Your Hands, and Get To Work
“The apostle Paul famously said of love that it “always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.”5 He was speaking at the time of loving that person in the church that you passionately dislike and never agree with, not about romantic love. The key characteristic of love in Paul’s ode is its excessiveness. No student of moderation, love always protects, even when doing so means giving up its own life for the beloved. Love always trusts, even when it has been repeatedly betrayed. Love always hopes, even when it is obviously ridiculous to do so. Love always perseveres, even after death.”
― Never Pray Again: Lift Your Head, Unfold Your Hands, and Get To Work
― Never Pray Again: Lift Your Head, Unfold Your Hands, and Get To Work
“How we behave is what we believe and what we do is who we are.”
― Never Pray Again: Lift Your Head, Unfold Your Hands, and Get To Work
― Never Pray Again: Lift Your Head, Unfold Your Hands, and Get To Work
“Once you see yourself clearly, you will see your flaws, your weakness, the ways in which you are still enslaved. You will recognize your enemy. This is the person you are to find a way to love.”
― Never Pray Again: Lift Your Head, Unfold Your Hands, and Get To Work
― Never Pray Again: Lift Your Head, Unfold Your Hands, and Get To Work
