Paste Jewelry and Sawdust Hotdogs
In my life group we are reading Ragamuffin Gospel by Brennen Manning and y’all it is so good. It has so many take aways it’s crazy. If you have not read it i highly recommend it…it will mess with you and bring so much freedom and amazingness to your life.
anyways, in Chapter 7 called, Paste Jewelry and Sawdust Hot Dogs. The premise of this chapter is how we can be fake and put on religion as your protection but question everything and fake our way through this life and through our faith.
This is a quote from this chapter…it messed me up, made me think about my own life and my actions.
“The way we are with each other is the truest test of our faith. How I treat a brother or sister from day to day, how I react to the sin-scarred wino on the street, how I respond to interruptions from people I dislike, how I deal with normal people in their normal confusion on a normal day may be a better indication of my reverence for life than the antiabortion sticker on the bumper of my car.”
I would love to know your thoughts.
nice title! i love that we titled our posts the SAME exact title today! i also LOVE you!
i know….kinda funny. its cause we're cool.
This is one of my favorite books of all time, and Brennan Manning is one of the most amazing teachers of our time in my opinion! This book absolutely changed my life, and my perspective – no question!
I love the way that he can challenge my thoughts on everything – and bend me outside of the box that I try to keep myself in called Christianity…
I highly recommend his book "The relentless tenderness of Jesus" – I just finished it, and am again, readjusting my paradigms…