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[0] checkbox [#] position [cover] cover [author] author Manning, Brennan [isbn] isbn 1576737160 [isbn13] isbn13 9781576737163 [asin] asin [num pages] num pages 240 pp [avg rating] avg rating 4.21 [num ratings] num ratings 20,475 [date pub] date pub 1990 [date pub (ed.)] date pub edition Jun 08, 2000 [rating] Elise's rating 5 of 5 stars [my rating] my rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars add to shelves [review] review "When I get honest, I admit that I am a bundle of paradoxes. I believe and I doubt, I hope and get discouraged, I love and I hate, I feel bad about fe "When I get honest, I admit that I am a bundle of paradoxes. I believe and I doubt, I hope and get discouraged, I love and I hate, I feel bad about feeling good, I feel guilty about not feeling guilty. I am trusting and suspicious. I am honest and I still play games....To live by grace means to acknowledge my whole life story, the light side and the dark." I loved this simple-but-not overview of the gospel. So much of what I like to read in the religion category is academic or historical, picking apart doctrine and culture, but this was just a beautifully written reminder of what the experience of the good news of Christianity feels like. "Philosopher Jacques Maritain once said that the culmination of knowledge is not conceptual but experiential - I feel God. Such is the promise of the Scriptures: "Be still and acknowledge [experience] that I am God" (Psalm 46:10)" "The saved sinner is prostrate in adoration, lost in wonder and praise. He knows repentance is not what we do in order to earn forgiveness; it is what we do because we have been forgiven. It serves as an expression of gratitude rather than an effort to earn forgiveness. Thus the sequence of forgiveness and then repentance, rather than repentance and then forgiveness, is crucial for understanding the gospel of grace." and my favorite prayer from this book...."Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe. Delight me to see how Your Christ plays in ten thousand places, lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not His, to the Father through the features of men's faces. Each day enrapture me with Your marvelous things without number. I do not ask to see the reason for it all; I ask only to share the wonder of it all." ...more [notes] notes Notes are private! [recommender] recommender none [comments] comments 0 [votes] votes 1 [read count] # times read 1 [date started] date started not set [date read] date read Jan 17, 2015 [date added] date added Jan 17, 2015 [date purchased] date purchased [owned] owned [purchase location] purchase location [condition] condition [format] format Paperback [29] actions view (with text) [title] 
title The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
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