Perhaps the biggest thing I could take from this book is the rawness of a relationship with Christ. In this day and age we try to come up with some new formula or new program when we just need to get back to getting with Christ PERIOD.
Either you want it or you don't ... I can't candy coat what Jesus wants and I can't make it make you feel good sometimes, because to follow Christ takes a true man or woman. You have to be ready to lose friends and family; it isn't a fast food restuarant that flame broils but it is Jesus pure and simple.
The Christian walk isn't hard, you just have to know who is doing the leading.
This is a manifesto. It's a call to action. It's a call to a way of life. Stop trying to figure it out because it isn't logical to let go of what you want. Than again it really isn't logical for us aliens to live in a world where we don't belong.
This book courtesy of waterbrookmultnomah.com
08 October 2011
Time to go on a Sacred Journey
This is a Book Review on the book The Sacred Journey by Charles Foster. I liked it, I liked it very much!
Never had I considered that we were perhaps created to wander.
As I began to read, I realized there is example after example of wandering people favored by God over those who built large empires or business. It is so easy as an American to assume bigger means better. I came to realize that is not necessarily true.
“The accounts of Jesus’ life are geographically very explicit.” He had said, “Follow me.” I just had never taken this as literally as the book challenged me to.
Charles wrote the following, “The penalty for wanting to be a settler is that you become one.” How profound! We settle – in so many ways.
Settling, America has done just that instead of holding true to its convictions, they've settled to make "everyone" happy and in the end we've lost our moral compass. It's time to return back to God, to get our moral compass back.
To stand up to the "special interest" group that says bad is good and good is contrary to truth. Jesus is the truth and when we ALL get back on that Sacred Journey we'll find Christ and TRUTH!!
I would recommend this book to anyone willing to consider that the ‘American Dream’ is the very thing keeping all of us from really making the impact on our world that God desires from us.
This book was brought to me courtesy of Booksneeze.com
Never had I considered that we were perhaps created to wander.
As I began to read, I realized there is example after example of wandering people favored by God over those who built large empires or business. It is so easy as an American to assume bigger means better. I came to realize that is not necessarily true.
“The accounts of Jesus’ life are geographically very explicit.” He had said, “Follow me.” I just had never taken this as literally as the book challenged me to.
Charles wrote the following, “The penalty for wanting to be a settler is that you become one.” How profound! We settle – in so many ways.
Settling, America has done just that instead of holding true to its convictions, they've settled to make "everyone" happy and in the end we've lost our moral compass. It's time to return back to God, to get our moral compass back.
To stand up to the "special interest" group that says bad is good and good is contrary to truth. Jesus is the truth and when we ALL get back on that Sacred Journey we'll find Christ and TRUTH!!
I would recommend this book to anyone willing to consider that the ‘American Dream’ is the very thing keeping all of us from really making the impact on our world that God desires from us.
This book was brought to me courtesy of Booksneeze.com
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