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Do you ever read Brennan Manning? Do you know what that is? I do, but I have never read anything.

So good. I've seen pieces of it but I have never read anything. So good.

I've seen pieces of it.

I'm sure he said something heretical.

I'm going to get emails about.

I read Ragabuff and Gospel.

Great.

A couple other ones.

It was so good.

But this quote, I just wanted to read this quote.

I don't read quotes free often, but here you go. He said, I want neither a terrorist spirituality that keeps me in a perpetual state of fright

about being in right relationship with my Heavenly Father, nor a sappy spirituality that portrays God

in such a benign teddy bear as such a benign teddy bear that there's no aberrant behavior or desire

of mine that he will not condone. I want a relationship with the Abba of Jesus, the daddy father of Jesus, who is infinitely

compassionate with my brokenness and at the same time an awesome, incomprehensible, an unwieldy

mystery.

That is so good because we kind of fall into those two camps sometimes like that's no he's

way more mysterious than that okay this is not a political statement okay I'm making okay

we're ready to send we we never we don't do that it's not who we are so please separate your

passions from this issue and focus. Okay.

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