Broken By Religion, Healed By God: Restoring The Evangelical, Sacramental, Pentecostal, Social Justice Church,New

The Body Of Christ Needs Healingthis Is My Journey To A Real And Engaging Relationship With Jesus. Its How I Became Born Again Among Evangelicals, Was Empowered By The Sacrament Among Catholics, Received The Baptism Of The Spirit Among Pentecostals, And Was Transformed By Social Justice Ministries Among Oldline Reformers. But Its Also About How The Church Has Divided By These Four Very Ways People Meet Jesus, Sabotaging Both Its Credibility And Mission. In Fact, This Division In The Body Of Christ Reflects The Same Shamebased Spirit Of Religion That Fueled Both The Pharisees And The 9/11Terrorists.Above All, This Book Is About How Jesus Is Battling To Heal His Broken Body Unto Today, And Through It, This Broken World. It'S Time We Joined Him. His Victoryand Oursdemands It. God Has A Planare You Ready?Chapters:1. Are You A Christian? Toward A Spiritual Ecumenism 2. Platypus Christian: A Strange But Holy Mixture 3. From Blah To Aha! Rediscovering A Whole Faith The Evangelical Witness4. A Time To Die, A Time To Be Bornagain The Sacramental Witness5. Nothing But The Blood: Getting Ready For Communion 6. A Protestant Confession: Power In The Sacrament The Pentecostal Witness7. Faith Encounters Of The Third Kind: Gods Larger Reality 8. Who Is Holy Spirit? Meeting The Active Presence Of God Today 9. Healing Emotional Wounds: Seeing The Past As Jesus Sees It 10. Cleaning Lady To The Rescue: Power To Heal Bodies The Social Justice Witness11. From Pier To Ocean: Adventuring Into The World With Jesus 12. Of Jogging And Cat Food: Meeting Jesus Where It Hurts 13. The Mirror Of Prejudice: Overcoming Personal &Corporate Racism 14. Jesus Is Our Peace: The Alternative To Warmaking Healed By God15. Blackmailed By Shame, Freed By Grace And Truth Epilog Rise And Jog Sound Bites* I Found Myself Sneaking From Camp To Camp, Learning From Catholics, Evangelicals, Pentecostals, And Oldline Social Reformers, Yet Being Careful Not To Reveal In Any One Church My Sympathies For The Others. * Most People Don'T Want To Be Healedat Least, Not As Badly As They Want To Cover Their Shame.* Gods Love Is Not A Zerosum Game. Theres Plenty To Go Around. You Don'T Have To Condemn Someone Different In Order To Affirm Yourself. You Just Have To Know How Much Your Father Loves You. * To Look Forward To Communion With Excitementas My Friend Looked Forward To Being With His Wife Againyou Must Believe That Jesus Will Actually Be There At The Table With You, Alive And Active, Even In Your Behalf.* Biblical Faith Redefines Safetyindeed, Peace Itselfnot As The Absence Of Threat, But The Presence Of Jesus.* Those Who Have Little Of The Worlds Resources Reflect The Deeper Reality That We All Have Nothing Except What God Has Graciously Given Us. * Material Comfort And Security Are Good Insofar As They Are Seen As The Undeserved Gifts Of A Graceful, Loving God, And Evil Insofar As They Separate Us From The Needs Of Others And Make Us Unresponsive To Their Suffering. * Christians Are Not Called To Fit Into This World, But To Change It. * Moses Came To Tell Us What To Do; Jesus Came To Show Us Who Does It.