Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

Let us share one of our latest reads, compliments of our friends Bert & Mary Beth Wood.... Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical by Shane Claiborne. This is an incredible book, challenging us all to be more deliberate in our pursuit of a life that mimics Jesus'. Check out these powerful quotes that represent just a few of the incredible nuggets of inspiration found inside this incredible book.

Love without courage and wisdom is sentimentality, as with the ordinary church member. Courage without love and wisdom is foolhardiness, as with the ordinary soldier. Wisdom without love and courage is cowardice, as with the ordinary intellectual. But the one who has love, courage and wisdom moves the world.
Ammon Hennacy

So I did a little survey, probing Christians about their (mis)conceptions of Jesus.... I asked participants who claimed to be "strong followers of Jesus" whether Jesus spent time with the poor. Nearly 80% said yes. I asked this same group of strong followers whether they spent time with the poor and less than 2% said they did. I learned a powerful lesson. We can admire and worship Jesus without doing what he did. We can applaud what he preached and stood for without caring about the same things. We can adore his cross without taking up ours. I had come to see that the great tragedy in the church is not that rich Christians do not care about the poor, but that rich Christians do not know the poor. Irresistible Revolution, p. 113

(Jesus) had a new definition of family, rooted in the idea that we are adopted as orphans into the family of God and that this rebirth creates a new kind of kinship that runs deeper than biology or geography or nationality. Rebirth is about being adopted into a new family - without borders. With new eyes, we can see that our family is both local and global, including but transcending biology, tribe or nationality, a renewed vision of the kin-dom of God with brothers and sisters (everywhere).
Irresistible Revolution, p. 200-201

To you, our brothers and sisters all across the globe, let us all take up our crosses, seek to act with love, courage and wisdom, and risk living life following the example of Jesus.