Interrupted: When Jesus Wrecks Your Comfortable Christianity

by Jen Hatmaker

Interrupted follows the author’s messy journey through life and church and into living on mission. Snatching Jen from the grip of her consumer life, God began asking her questions like, “What is really the point of My Church? What have I really asked of you?” She was far too busy doing church than being church, even as a pastor’s wife, an author of five Christian books, and a committed believer for 26 years. She discovered she had missed the point. Christ brought Jen and her family to a place of living on mission by asking them tough questions, leading them through Scripture, and walking together with them on the path. Interrupted invites readers to take a similar journey.

Paperback

Published July 1, 2014

About the author

JEN HATMAKER is the New York Times bestselling author of For the Love and Fierce, Free, and Full of Fire, along with twelve other books. She hosts the award-winning For the Love podcast, is the delighted curator of the Jen Hatmaker Book Club, and leader of a tightly knit online community where she reaches millions of people each week. Jen is a co-founder of Legacy Collective, a giving organization that grants millions of dollars toward sustainable projects around the world. She is a mom to five kids and lives happily just outside Austin, Texas.

To learn more about Jen, visit www.jenhatmaker.com.

Reviews

[Heather Powell · Rating 4 out of 5]

p.xii. Missional is a life where the way of Jesus informs and radically transforms our existence

p.xx God is doing a new thing as He has done in every generation- it’s our turn to experience God’s fresh redemption

The kingdom refuses to play by thrills of power politics and aggression. it whispers of embarrassing grace.

Phase 1
p5 use the Word to defend my life rather than be defined by it

p11 pray this- God raise up in me a holy passion

p26
Ezekiel 16:49
Her Sodom’s daughters were arrogant, overfed, and unconcerned

Phase 2
p54 Jesus would become living theology to change the course of history

Do this in remembrance- do is a continual doing and remembrance is from anamnesis which means to make rea- constantly make this real

Continuously make my sacrifice real by doing this very thing. Become broken and poured out for hopeless people

We don’t simply remember the meal we become the meal

Death in me= life in you. Broken so someone else is fed. Feed my sheep

p63
The risk of encountering a few weeds is not sufficient reason to avoid the whole field of human suffering

The correct character to identify with here is the weed shown mercy not the Savior capable of discerning the human heart

Simplicity- Richard Rohr
p71 the only ones who can accept the proclamation of the reign are those who have nothing to protect, not reputation, possessions, … and these are called the poor

Phase 3
Mind-heart-hands
p 94 non believers simply dismiss the church as irrelevant to their real lives since it seems mostly irrelevant to the people who go there

p97 Romans 7:6 we serve in the new way of the Spirit

p 111 Richard Rohr we cannot think our way into a new kind of living. We must live our way into a new way of thinking

p 113
Rethinking how we serve
When they were poor to me, the emphasis was on what I was giving. But then I started noticing not so much their need but their humanity
p114 so as I was beginning to identify with the least - and Jesus already said He was the least -I was perhaps starting to commune with Christ in earnest for the first time in my life. It was a party at the bottom. Sorry I was so late. I got lost

o 119- this is how I want my church to look. I want her to rip her shoes off her feet for the suffering every single chance she gets


Phase 4
p137 Part of our task is going without knowing
If you go wherever God says and when, expect to be misunderstood
p141- we can wreck the spirit of a mission by prematurely focusing on the strategy
p143itsxeadh to visit the bottom with works while our hearts remain higher up. That’s just charity

p159
If we don’t obey, expect to be ignored

p177 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 becomes the church it dreams of

Phase 5
p 197Jesus would become supreme- not a method
Used to be believe and behave then belong, but now
Belong to believe to belong


p202 we’ve bought into the lie that connecting with people on their terms is somehow compromising, that our refusal to proclaim our moral ground from word one is a slippery slope

p 205whwt makes the gospel good news isn’t the concept it is the person who has been changed by it

We can continue to invite unbelievers to church, but we must first invite them into our lives
p 212 if at every turn believers labored for others as if they were our masters, we could not be ignored for long
P 222 whether persuading a legalese to grace or an atheist to faith, it is our high calling to innocently confirm to their worldview in any possible way to earn a hearing for the gospel

p 232 I believe the largest factor in feeling under is not feeding others

Fulfillment exists in becoming a slave to everyone in order to win someone to Jesus