Sunday 11 July 2010

When Comfort Becomes Uncomfortable


The title of this chapter of Irresistible Revolution comes from the saying "God comforts the disturbed and disturbs the comfortable."

Shane talks about feeling increasing disturbed by God - while living in the comfortable suburbs. And the more he read the bible the less comfortable he felt - especially with the fake Jesus that he feels American Christianity produces.

He tells the story of being on a short-term mission trip, and a group of children (preparing a skit from a gospel story) came up to him and said "Shane we need you to play Jesus, because you are white and from America."

Or as George Bernard Shaw puts it..
God created us in his image, and we decided to return the favour.

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