Center of the Flame

I just wanted to take a moment to share a quote that I found incredibly inspiring:

“The gospel is absurd and the life of Jesus is meaningless unless we believe that He lived, died, and rose again with but one purpose in mind: to make brand-new creation. Not to make people with better morals but to create a community of prophets and professional lovers, men and women who would surrender to the mystery of the fire of the Spirit that burns within, who would live in ever greater fidelity to the omnipresent Word of God, who would enter into the center of it all, the very heart and mystery of Christ, into the center of the flame that consumes, purifies, and sets everything aglow with peace, joy, boldness, and extravagant, furious love. This, my friend, is what it really means to be a Christian.”

-Brennan Manning

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"...what we see is that anyone united with the Messiah gets a fresh start, is created new. The old life is gone; a new life emerges!"

2 Corinthians 15:16-18 (The Message)