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  • Spirituality is a mixed-up, topsy-turvy, helter-skelter godliness that turns our lives into an upside-down toboggan ride of unexpected turns, surprise bumps and bone shattering crashes ... a life ruined by a Jesus who loves us right into his arms.

    Jesus   Bumps   Arms  
  • The Church is the place where the incompetent, the unfinished, and even the unhealthy are welcome. I believe Jesus agrees.

    Jesus   Believe   Church  
    Mike Yaconelli (2009). “Messy Spirituality”, p.26, Harper Collins
  • When we are in touch with God's joy and peace in us, then we become whole and holy persons. Like living torches we radiate the light and heat of God's compassionate love.

    Love   Christian   Light  
  • Until we start thinking in terms of revolution instead of compromise the Church will continue to pat itself on the back with token steps of renewal.

  • Children live in a world of dreams and imagination, a world of aliveness… There is a voice of wonder and amazement inside all of us; but we grow to realize we can no longer hear it, and we live in silence. It isn’t that God stopped speaking; it is that our lives became louder.

    Dream   Children   Voice  
  • Nothing in the church makes people in the church more angry than grace. It's ironic: we stumble into a party we weren't invited to and find the uninvited standing at the door making sure no other uninviteds get in. Then a strange phenomenon occurs: as soon as we are included in the party because of Jesus' irresponsible love, we decide to make grace "more responsible" by becoming self-appointed Kingdom Monitors, guarding the kingdom of God, keeping the riffraff out (which, as I understand it, are who the kingdom of God is supposed to include).

    Jesus   Party   Doors  
  • Spirituality is not about being fixed; it is about God's being present in the mess of our unfixedness. (Messy Spirituality)

    Mike Yaconelli (2009). “Messy Spirituality”, p.14, Harper Collins
  • Our world is... longing to see people whose God is big and holy and frightening and gentle and tender... and ours; a God whose love frightens us into His strong and powerful arms where He longs to whisper those terrifying words, 'I love you.'

  • Christianity is not about learning how to live within the lines; Christianity is about the joy of coloring.

    Michael Yaconelli, Mike Yaconelli (2000). “Dangerous Wonder: The Adventure of Childlike Faith”
  • Rest is a decision we make. Rest is choosing to do nothing when we have too much to do, slowing down when we feel pressure to go faster, stopping instead of starting. Rest is listening to our weariness and responding to our tiredness, not to what is making us tired. Rest is what happens when we say one simple word: “No!

  • The power of the Church is not a parade of flawless people, but of a flawless Christ who embraces our flaws. The Church is not made up of whole people, rather of the broken people who find wholeness in a Christ who was broken for us.

    Jesus   Power   Broken  
  • Accepting the reality of our broken, flawed lives is the beginning of spirituality not because the spiritual life will remove our flaws but because we let go of seeking perfection and, instead, seek God, the one who is present in the tangledness of our lives.

    Mike Yaconelli (2009). “Messy Spirituality”, p.14, Harper Collins
  • Spiritual growth thrives in the midst of our problems, not in their absence. Spiritual growth occurs in the trenches of life, not in the classroom.

    Mike Yaconelli (2009). “Messy Spirituality”, p.49, Harper Collins
  • Spirituality isn't about being finished and perfect; spirituality is about trusting God in our unfinishedness.

    Mike Yaconelli (2009). “Messy Spirituality”, p.24, Harper Collins
  • The grace of God is dangerous. It's lavish, excessive, outrageous, and scandalous. God's grace is ridiculously inclusive. Apparently God doesn't care who He loves. He is not very careful about the people He calls His friends or the people He calls His church.

    People   Grace   Church  
  • Spiritual growth is more than procedure, it’s a wild search for God in the midst of the tangled jungle of our souls, a search for which involves a volatile mix of messy reality, wild freedom, frustrating stuckness, increasing slowness and a healthy dose of gratitude

  • Just because we believe the gospel is a life-and-death matter doesn't mean we have to act as if we're dead.

    Michael Yaconelli, Mike Yaconelli (2000). “Dangerous Wonder: The Adventure of Childlike Faith”
  • Christianity is not about learning how to live within the lines; Christianity is about the joy of coloring. The grace of God is preposterous enough to accept as beautiful a coloring that anyone else would reject as ugly. The grace of God sees beyond the scribbling to the heart of the scribbler - a scribbler who is similar to two thieves who hung on crosses on either side of Jesus. One of the two asked Jesus to please accept his scribbled and sloppy life into the kingdom of God and He did. Preposterous. And very good news for the rest of us scribblers.

    Beautiful   Jesus   Heart  
  • Play is an expression of God's presence in the world; one clear sign of God's absence in society is the absence of playfulness and laughter.

    Michael Yaconelli, Mike Yaconelli (2000). “Dangerous Wonder: The Adventure of Childlike Faith”
  • Sin does not always drive us to drink; more often it drives us to exhaustion. Tiredness is equally as debilitating as drunkenness. Burnout is slang for an inner tiredness, a fatigue of our souls. Jesus came to forgive us all of our sins, including the sin of busyness. The problem with growth in the modern church is not the slowness of growth but the rushing of growth.

    Jesus   Rushing   Soul  
    Mike Yaconelli (2009). “Messy Spirituality”, p.64, Harper Collins
  • What landed Jesus on the cross was the preposterous idea that common, ordinary, broken, screwed-up people could be godly.

    Jesus   Godly   Ideas  
    Mike Yaconelli (2009). “Messy Spirituality”, p.14, Harper Collins
  • Speed damages our souls because living fast consumes every ounce of our energy. Speed has a deafening roar that drowns our the whispering voices of our souls and leaves Jesus as a diminishing speck in the rearview mirror.

    Jesus   Mirrors   Voice  
    Mike Yaconelli (2009). “Messy Spirituality”, p.64, Harper Collins
  • Think about how many of us have wondered why we don't fit, why our faith doesn't stabilize us, why we seem so out of sync with most of the world. Genuine faith is the isolating force in our lives that creates tension wherever we go. To put it another way, faith is the unbalancing force in our lives that is the fruit of God's disturbing presence.

    Thinking   World   Way  
    Mike Yaconelli (2009). “Messy Spirituality”, p.54, Harper Collins
  • Religious people love to hide behind religion. They love the rules of religion more than they love Jesus. With practice, Condemners let rules become more important than the spiritual life.

    Mike Yaconelli (2009). “Messy Spirituality”, p.36, Harper Collins
  • Speed is not neutral. Fast living used to mean a life of debauchery; now it just means fast, but the consequences are even more serious. Speeding through life endangers our relationships and our souls.

    Mean   Soul   Debauchery  
    Mike Yaconelli (2009). “Messy Spirituality”, p.63, Harper Collins
  • For God so loved the world, that whosoever believes in him will, from that point on, be considered weired by the rest of the world, which means the church should be more like a zoo than a tomb of identical mummies.

    Zoos   Believe   Mean  
    Mike Yaconelli (2009). “Messy Spirituality”, p.54, Harper Collins
  • Jesus cares more about desire than about competence

    Jesus   Desire   Care  
    Mike Yaconelli (2009). “Messy Spirituality”, p.25, Harper Collins
  • I want a lifetime of holy moments. Every day I want to be in dangerous proximity to Jesus. I long for a life that explodes with meaning and is filled with adventure, wonder, risk, and danger. I long for a faith that is gloriously treacherous. I want to be with Jesus, not knowing whether to cry or laugh.

    Michael Yaconelli, Mike Yaconelli (2000). “Dangerous Wonder: The Adventure of Childlike Faith”
  • There are a whole lot of people who are so freakin' busy—they've so cluttered up their lives—they're at their wits' end. And if they'd only just stop for a minute, they could hear the God of the universe whisper to them, “I love you.

    Love You   People   Busy  
  • Im unfinished. Im unfixed. And the reality is thats where God meets me is in the mess of my life, in the unfixedness, in the brokenness. I thought he did the opposite, he got rid of all that stuff. But if you read the Bible, if you look at it at all, constantly he was showing up in peoples lives at the worst possible time of their life.

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