Saturday, June 29, 2013

Quotes from "Scarred Faith" by Josh Ross


Lifted by Kindle from “Scarred Faith:  This is a story about how Honesty, Grief, a Cursing Toddler, Risk-Taking, AIDS, Hope, Brokenness, Doubts, and Memphis Ignited Adventurous Faith” by Josh Ross

Deep faith is scarred faith. Faith isn’t something that is downloaded into a brain like antivirus software onto a desktop. It is about lived experiences. Faith doesn’t run deep because one is stuffed with right answers. It is cultivated by asking the right questions. Faith is about journey, experience, movement, and process. It is about adventure. And one thing we know about adventure is that there are moments of pain, regret, wounds, suspense, and questioning. - Highlight Loc. 139-42
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But most of us have a love/hate relationship with adventures. Adventures involve sacrifice, time, and commitment. - Highlight Loc. 169-70
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To strip adventure and risk taking from faith and spirituality causes immense oppression, injustice, and brokenness throughout our world, - Highlight Loc. 180-81
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A storytelling community can’t ignore the scars and wounds that have shaped us. It’s who we are. We can’t hide the grief under the rug. We can’t scrape the baggage from our identity. We can’t remove the unanswered questions we’ve carried for years. So, God, in his infinite wisdom, created community, because stories are meant to bear witness to something. They are meant to link us to all of humanity. - Highlight Loc. 1482-85
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Few people do community better than pain-ridden people. - Highlight Loc. 1371
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May God forgive us for taking better care of our buildings than we do our neighbors. - Highlight Loc. 1510

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