More from Red Moon Rising
I hope you're not tired of reading about Red Moon Rising again, because I'm certainly not tired of writing about it. I'm determined to influence at least one person to read this book and confirm that my amazement isn't unfounded, so if you will write me and say, "Okay, I read it! Are you happy now?" then I will shut up about it.
Before I begin, I must redress one thing I failed to point out earlier. This book is co-authored by Pete Greig and Dave Roberts. I apologize for stating Pete as this book’s only author. Dave’s influence on this book is impossible to detect, quite likely due to his incredible skill of helping to direct a book without taking over it completely.
Having said that, I must confess that I am frustrated by my lack of ability to do this book any justice. So for today, I’d like to retreat into the background and share some of my favorite quotes from the book. At times, I more skillfully borrow ideas than blog my own, don’t I? However, my position is that it’s okay to back away from giving my opinion all the time when there are other, more worthy options out there. So here is Red Moon Rising on:
The "emerging culture" and the role the Church must play:
"The challenges for the Church at such a time are profound. A generation that finds itself in the crux of such a change has a significant responsibility for shaping the new ways of thinking that will define its own age but also that of the coming era. When Christians get it right at such times, adapting themselves to the changing culture and finding new language for timeless truths, the Gospel spreads more easily for years to come because it makes sense to people. However, when the Church gets it wrong by resisting change and enshrining nostalgia, we risk apparent irrelevance and an upward struggle."
Giving flowers to prostitutes:
"We knew that Jesus would have done more than buy flowers. He made friends with prostitutes. He sat and ate with them and allowed one to massage his feet. He listened and dared to love in spite of what people would think. Giving them dignity, he refused to condemn them for their sin and even wrote their names in the very scriptures . . . Today in Dubi, God had unexpectedly spoken about justice and compassion, about the fact that intercession is impossible until we allow the things that break God’s heart to break our hearts as well." (See Isaiah 58:10 and Amos 5:21-24)
Part of The Vision:
"A million times a day its soldiers chose to lose that they might one day win the great ‘Well done’ of faithful sons and daughters.
This is the sound of the underground, the whisper of history in the making, foundations shaking, revolutionaries dreaming once again.
Watching. Waiting. 24-7-365. Whatever it takes they will give: breaking the rules, shaking mediocrity from its cozy little hide,
Laying down their rights and their precious little wrongs, laughing at labels, fasting essentials. The advertisers cannot mold them. Hollywood cannot hold them.
With blood and sweat and many tears, with sleepless nights and fruitless days, they pray as if it all depends on God and live as if it all depends on them.
Don’t you hear them coming? Herald the weirdos! Summon the losers and the freaks! Here come the frightened and forgotten with fire in their eyes.
My tomorrow is His today. My distant hope is His 3-D. And my feeble, whispered faithless prayer invokes a thunderous, resounding, bone-shaking great 'Amen!' from countless angels, from heroes of the faith, from Christ Himself.
And He is the original dreamer, the ultimate winner. Guaranteed."
(See Isaiah 62)
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