In Donald Miller’s Blue Like Jazz, he tells of the conversion process of Penny, a very insecure college student. When she was getting to know a fellow student who practiced her Christianity in a whole new way, Don writes:
“Penny began to wonder if Christianity, were it a person,
might in fact like her” p. 46).
That quote has stopped me in my tracks. I’m surrounded by a hurting and insecure world. There are people all around that would just like to be liked. In their own misery, I doubt they’ve even considered that there might be more to Jesus than an empty religious ceremony. If he were here, he’d like them!
And the good news is, he is here! Now, how to show them that he really, really likes them?
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Rush Family 06
This blog serves three purposes. It gives me an avenue to share my walk with God, provides opportunities to keep up with friends who live far, far away and it lets me post pictures of my three beautiful children and one beautiful wife. Scroll all the way down to see a photo of our family taken in August of 06
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4 comments:
Hey, I really like that quote. I think I am going to like the book. I swiped it out of your office today while you were at the men's mini-retreat.
Once I was finally able to grasp that Jesus liked me and valued me ... it changed my life, and changed the way I looked at Him.
He was no longer the great, big, giant waiting to punish me ... He was the quiet, understanding friend that was bigger than anything I would ever fear.
I like you
The real Jesus ... not the plastic-coated ... gold-plated ... mahogany-carved ... "glow-in-the-dark" ... white-chocolate Jesus ... but the real Jesus understands me ... sypathizes with my weaknesses ... and makes me believe that He is not ashamed to call me "brother". When I learned that ... it changed my life, and I love to watch people discover it. You live in such a way ... that people realize the truth of Jesus - accepting and loving them, too. Rex
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