Our LifeGroup Online is reading The Ragamuffin Gospel by Brennan Manning.

This book is kicking me in the behind (in a really amazingly AWESOME “push-me-towards-God’s-embrace” kind of way)… and revealing a lot of truth that I’ve been suppressing in my own life.

I thought I’d share something I read this past week from the “Tilted Halos” chapter:

“Getting honest with ourselves does not make us unacceptable to God.  It does not distance us from God, but draws us to Him — as nothing else can — and opens us anew to the flow of grace.  While Jesus calls each of us to a more perfect life, we cannot achieve it on our own.  To be alive is to be broken; to be broken isto stand in need of grace.  It is only through grace that any of us could dare to hope that we could become more like Christ.

The saved sinner with the tilted halo has been converted from mistrust to trust, has arrived at an inner poverty of spirit, and lives as best he or she can in rigorous honesty with self, others and God.

The question which the gospel of grace puts to us is simply this:

Who shall separate you from the love of Christ?  Who are you afraid of?”

Great question posed here.
Thoughts?