Chapter 3 Excerpts: "From Paper to Pavement: Believing & Being the Gospel"

"It is not about trying to do what Jesus would do. Rather, it has to do with thinking the way Jesus thinks in order to live the way Jesus lived. Dallas Willard said, 'Another important way of putting this is to say that I am learning from Jesus to live my life if he were I. I am not necessarily learning to do everything he did, but I am learning how to do everything I do in the manner that he did all that he did.'" (p. 103)

"The power of Scripture comes to life when we give ourselves to it's message in the real living of our lives, letting it analyze us even more than we analyze it." (p. 104)

"People are not convinced by teaching but by encounter. Doctrine follows as a way of explaining the impact of the encounter." (p. 107)

"We are praying, 'Lord, I don't want to just read this passage and leave unchanged by it. Let me not just feed myself from this daily bread but help me feed others with it also.'" (p. 110)

"Jesus didn't say, 'Come and study me.' He said, 'Come and follow me.'" (p. 111)

"Do you just believe in Jesus or do you also believe Jesus?" (p. 115)

The thrust of chapter 3 seems to be that orthopraxy and orthodoxy go hand in hand.

*How are you experiencing the paper hitting the pavement in and through your lives and communities?