Chapter 8 highlights from Shane Claiborne's "The Irresistible Revolution". I was actually going to slow down on the blogging for awhile, but there were many good stories in this chapter. I'll just drop a few quotes.
On p. 225 he tells what one of his professors told him in college: “All around you, people will be tiptoeing through life, just to arrive at death safely. But dear children, do not tiptoe. Run, hop, skip, or dance, just don’t tiptoe.”
p. 226 (from Soren Kierkegaard), “To want to admire, instead of follow, Christ is not an invention of bad people; no it is more an invention of those who spinelessly want to keep themselves detached at a safe distance from Jesus.”
p. 237 “And I remember what one of those police officers said one night as we were taken to jail. As he was searching me, he found my Bible in my pocket. ‘We’re going to have to take this,’ he said. They had never taken my Bible before, so I asked him why. Smiling, he said, ‘It’s a dangerous book. We can’t have you reading that.’... As I thought more about it, though, it’s true: this is a dangerous book. For centuries it has gotten people killed, beaten, jailed.”
p. 242 “Dance until they kill you, and then we’ll dance some more. That’s how this thing seems to work.”
Hmm. An interesting chapter. Gotta run.
Journey real.
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