What would the world be like if a community of people who really deeply desperately loved God so much that it spilled out all over the place onto others around them?
In Souvenirs of Solitude: Finding Rest in Abba's Embrace, Brennan Manning says, "What the world longs for from the Christian faith is the witness of men and women daring enough to be different, humble enough to make mistakes, wild enough to be burnt in the fire of love, real enough to make others see how unreal they are."
Picture a community that burned in the fire of God's love...
Manning goes on to share this prayer, "Jesus, Son of the living God, anoint us with the fire this day. Let Your Word not shine (only) in our hearts but let it burn. Let there be no division, compromise, or holding back. Separate the mystics from the romantics and goad us to that daredevil leap into the abyss of Your love."
Brennan Manning, Souvenirs of Solitude: Finding Rest in Abba's Embrace (NavPress, Colorado Springs, 37.
In Souvenirs of Solitude: Finding Rest in Abba's Embrace, Brennan Manning says, "What the world longs for from the Christian faith is the witness of men and women daring enough to be different, humble enough to make mistakes, wild enough to be burnt in the fire of love, real enough to make others see how unreal they are."
Picture a community that burned in the fire of God's love...
Manning goes on to share this prayer, "Jesus, Son of the living God, anoint us with the fire this day. Let Your Word not shine (only) in our hearts but let it burn. Let there be no division, compromise, or holding back. Separate the mystics from the romantics and goad us to that daredevil leap into the abyss of Your love."
Brennan Manning, Souvenirs of Solitude: Finding Rest in Abba's Embrace (NavPress, Colorado Springs, 37.
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