27.2.08
Crazy For God (A revealing book by Frank Schaeffer)
When you tell the truth you make some people very angry and they are going to label you as apostate, liberal, dangerous and so forth.
There are secrets behind closed doors.
There are the shouts behind the walls.
There are slapped faces, emotional affairs, desperate concerns for money, and lies.
We’re highly invested in appearances and living falsehoods.
We believe and revere celebrities who, by and large, are people we ought to have nothing to do with.
We need to hear the truth, because we’re a mess.
We’re not worse than other people, we’re just LIKE other people and we don’t want to admit it.
We’re very, very human.
We are all human beings, sinners and beggars.
Will we ever learn this lesson?
Or will we just continue down the insane road that assumes somehow everything is all right because we have a collection of Bible verses propping us up?
It is also a book that is profoundly human, deeply self-forgiving and saturated in grace. It will do you good.
It will do all of us good, because it will remind you that your life and your children’s lives cannot be untangled.
If you want to hear the story of grace, faith, hope, love and forgiveness that we all long to live, then read this book.
There are secrets behind closed doors.
There are the shouts behind the walls.
There are slapped faces, emotional affairs, desperate concerns for money, and lies.
We’re highly invested in appearances and living falsehoods.
We believe and revere celebrities who, by and large, are people we ought to have nothing to do with.
We need to hear the truth, because we’re a mess.
We’re not worse than other people, we’re just LIKE other people and we don’t want to admit it.
We’re very, very human.
We are all human beings, sinners and beggars.
Will we ever learn this lesson?
Or will we just continue down the insane road that assumes somehow everything is all right because we have a collection of Bible verses propping us up?
It is also a book that is profoundly human, deeply self-forgiving and saturated in grace. It will do you good.
It will do all of us good, because it will remind you that your life and your children’s lives cannot be untangled.
If you want to hear the story of grace, faith, hope, love and forgiveness that we all long to live, then read this book.
Labels: Crazy For God, Frank Schaeffer
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