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
