First of all, I highly recommend this book if you want every religious principle that has been ingrained in you your entire life to be shaken! Here's a little blurb I thought I would share...
"Too often we just do what makes sense to us and ask God to bless it. In the Beatitudes, God tells us what God blesses--the poor, the peacemakers, the hungry, those who mourn, those who show mercy--so we should not ask God's blessing on a declaration that we will have no mercy on evildoers. We know all too well that we have a God who shows mercy on evildoers, for it He didn't, we'd all be in big trouble, and for that, this evildoer is very glad. Rather than do what makes sense to us and ask God's blessing, we'd do better to surround ourselves with those whom God promises to bless, and then we need not ask God's blessing. It's just what God does" (pg. 219).
What have I/you been doing that makes sense to us, asking God to bless it?
Danny just ordered it for me :o)
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