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Jesus Freak: Feeding Healing Raising the Dead

Book information

Publisher
Jossey-Bass
Year
2010
ISBN
0470481668, 9780470481660
LCC
BV4935.M525 A3 2010
Open Library ID
OL23862198M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1537891 bytes)
Pages
192\194
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-04-28 18:43:47

Description

''I came late to Christianity,'' writes Sara Miles, ''knocked upside down by a mid-life conversion centered around eating a literal chunk of bread. I hadn't decided to profess an article of doctrine, but discovered a force blowing uncontrollably through the world.'' In this new book, Sara Miles tells what happened when she decided to follow the flesh and blood Jesus by doing something real. For everyone afraid to feed hungry strangers, love the unlovable, or go to dark places to bless and heal, she offers hope. She holds out the promise of a God who gave a bunch of housewives and fishermen authority to forgive sins and raise the dead, and who continues to call us to action. And she tells, in vivid, heartbreakingly honest stories, how the ordinary people around her are transformed by taking up God's work in the world. Sara Miles offers a fresh, fully embodied faith that sweeps away the anxious formulas of religion to reveal the scandalous power of eating with sinners, embracing the unclean, and loving the wrong people. Jesus Freak: Feeding Healing Raising the Dead is her inspiring book for undomesticated Christians who still believe, as she writes, ''that Jesus has given us the power to be Jesus.''

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