The Gospel is “Fire”
May 22, 2009Quote from Brennan Manning:
“Jesus Christ has irreparably changed the world. When preached purely, His Word exalts, frightens, shocks, and forces us to reassess our whole life. The gospel breaks our train of thought, shatters our comfortable piety, and cracks open our capsule truths. The flashing spirit of Jesus Christ breaks new paths everywhere. His sentences stand like quivering swords of flame because He did not come to bring peace, but a revolution. The gospel is not a children’s fairy tale, but rater a cutting-edge, rolling-thunder, convulsive earthquake in the world of the human spirit.”
The Furious Longing of God (David C. Cook, Colorado Springs) p. 115.
And we sometimes wonder why it is Christians get so misrepresented, mistreated in this world