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Being the one who gets to serve is a position of power.
Christ comes to us in the needs of the poor and hungry, needs that are met by another so that the gleaming redemption of God might be known.
No one gets to play Jesus. But we do get to experience Jesus in that holy place where we meet others’ needs and have our own needs met. We are all the needy and the ones who meet needs. To place ourselves or anyone else in only one category is to lie to ourselves.
So maybe if, in part, that is what having a demon is, maybe if it’s being taken over by something destructive, then possession really is less of an anachronism and more of an epidemic.
Maybe my demon of anger knows to steer clear of the gospel, lest I end up forgiving some jackass who I really want to punch in the throat. Maybe your demon of inertia knows to avoid Jesus, lest it be cast off a cliff and you have to start showing up in life. Maybe your demon of compulsive eating knows to not listen to Jesus’s word of love, lest it find itself drowned in a lake and you clothed and fully in your body, sitting at Jesus’s feet. Maybe my demon of always, always, always having to prove myself fears Jesus since if I were to listen to Jesus and not that demon, I may start really
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In the Jesus business, community is always a part of healing. Even though community is never perfect.
These things that take me over never seem isolated to my mind or heart (as guilty as those two are). The anger is also very physical.
Because in the end, we aren’t punished for our sins as much as we are punished by our sins.
as soon as I was able to stop thinking of forgiveness of sins as the dry-erase situation and start thinking of it as freedom from the bondage of self, everything changed.
knowing that our sin is not what defines us, can finally set us free.