What we believe about God is the most important truth we believe, and it's the one truth that does the most to shape us. God is the Sun too bright for us to see. Jesus is the Prism who makes the colors beautiful and comprehensible.
— Michael Spencer Mere Churchianity: Finding Your Way Back to Jesus-Shaped Spirituality
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Jesus is compelling in the way the discovery of the stars or the experience of a one-of-a-kind romance is compelling. His presence draws you in to the deep.
— Michael Spencer Mere Churchianity: Finding Your Way Back to Jesus-Shaped Spirituality
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Jesus never asked me to give to an organization the kind of exclusive devotion he demands from his disciples. Over and over, Jesus calls people to himself - out of the church, the culture, the economy, and the family.
— Michael Spencer Mere Churchianity: Finding Your Way Back to Jesus-Shaped Spirituality
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At the foundation of the Christian life, there is a kind of sacred individuality, a sort of holy aloneness that cries out to be left alone with God. This isn't all of the Christian life. It doesn't erase those parts of a Christian's experience that happen in the context of relationships, but this sacred solitude needs to be discovered, respected, and protected. It is that place where we most irrefutably hear God tell us that he loves us, and we come to know that, no matter what other people may say about us or do to us, God will not abandon us. That holy solitude is the place where we find God's Spirit changing our affections and redirecting our identities. It is, for Jesus-followers, holy ground.
— Michael Spencer Mere Churchianity: Finding Your Way Back to Jesus-Shaped Spirituality
Tags: spirituality, solitude, jesus, internet-monk
The human experience of weakness is God's blueprint for calling attention to the supremacy of his Son. When miserably failing people continue to belong to, believe in, and worship Jesus, God is happy.
— Michael Spencer Mere Churchianity: Finding Your Way Back to Jesus-Shaped Spirituality
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It is rare to find an established community of Christians that encourages radical expressions of following Jesus. The natural conservatism of institutions is deeply rooted in the desire to survive, and that desire colors and limits the way they read the Bible and how they see God functioning in the world.
— Michael Spencer Mere Churchianity: Finding Your Way Back to Jesus-Shaped Spirituality
Tags: spirituality, jesus, internet-monk, conservatism, bible
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