"This book is written for everyone who has tried church and found it wanting, but somewhere deep within they still desire a spiritual life in the way of Jesus."
FINDING NEW MEANING IN SPIRITUAL PRACTICES
"Jesus always envisioned and communicated an embodied real life, a "put-into-practice" version of Christianity. He was into the game, not the pregame meetings. Only recently has mere belief in a few points of doctrine concerning Jesus - rather than playing his game - meant that a person is a Christian. For Jesus, merely hearing and agreeing with his teaching was never enough; nor was it enough to be awed by his miracles. His teachings and actions are signs that point to the reality we are invited to live. Did you catch that? Live, not just "believe true" or "feel warm about", like memories of a favorite Thanksgiving Day."
"Only a few misguided, often angry people expect Christians to be perfect. But the Christian cry, "we can't be perfect" has become an excuse that has simultaneously stymied the spiritual growth of the churchgoers and turned off the onlooking world. It has become a subconscious way to avoid intentionally living in alignment with Jesus words, a rallying cry that allows us the take on Jesus words as "incidental additions to your life, homeowner improvements to your standard of living", rather than foundational words, words to build a life on" (Matthew 7:24 25). The words of Jesus or subconsciously seen as mere words used in Bible studies, not to be worked into our life."
The goal of re-practicing Christianity is to move our spiritual experience from a mere system of beliefs and unsatisfying church routines to a newly conceived way of life and empowered living rooted in the spiritual practices of the church.
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