Arriving on my doorstep (surprise!) today, the long awaited follow-up to Velvet Elvis.
"Our first need is not for people to fix our problems. People who charge in and have all the answers and try to make things right without first joining us in our pain generally annoy us, or worse yet, they push us away. They have nothing to give us. The God that Jesus points us to is not a god who stands at a distance wringing his hands and saying, 'if only you'd listened to me.'
This is the God who holds out his hands and asks: 'Would you like to see the holes where the nails went? Would that help?
The Cross is where we present our wounds to God and say, 'Here, you take them.'"
-Rob Bell, Sex God
...and we shall keep reading...
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Wow. Maybe this is a book I should read!
animals vs. angels....HOW, rob bell, does one fathom such a huge thought? HOW!?!?
it is the next book I want to read...
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