“Until the love of God that knows no boundary, limit, or breaking point is internalized through personal decision; until the furious longing of God seizes the imagination; until the heart is conjoined to the mind through sheer grace, nothing happens. The idolatry of ideas has left me puffed up, narrow-minded, and intolerant of any ida that does not coincide with mine.
“The wild, unrestricted love of God is not simply an inspiring idea. When it imposes itself on mind and heart with the stark reality of ontological truth, it determines why and at what time you get up in the morning, how you pass your evenings, how you spend your weekends, what you read and who[sic] you hang with; it affects what breaks your heart, what amazes you, and what makes your heart happy.”— The Furious Longing of God, pages 70-71
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Wow! See what I mean by Brennan blowing you away at times. This is Christianity in a nutshell. As Debbie (my wife) likes to say, “Self out; Christ in.” And this is what it looks like, “the furious longing of God.”
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Wow... excellent!
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