Saturday, July 9, 2011

Excuse me, Brennan Manning

Just where have you been my whole life?

...I had totally misunderstood the Christian faith. I came to see that is was in my brokenness, in my powerlessness, in my weakness that Jesus was made strong. It was in the acceptance of my lack of faith that God could give me faith. It was in embracing my brokenness that I could identify with others brokenness. It was my role to identify with others pain, not relieve it.

Ministry was in sharing, not dominating; understanding, not theologizing; caring, not fixing.
- Abba's Child, pg 54

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