Irresistible Revolution

This is a the title of a book I'm reading by Shane Claiborne. My plan was to write a book review when I finished; however, I find the book generally too good to wait until my slow-reading self finds time to read the rest.

So, because I haven't finished and am technically unqualified at this point to write a review (did I mention I hadn't finished yet?), I thought I'd just share some quotes from the book to give you an impression.

Enjoy.

“The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them away.”

“True generosity is measured not by how much we give away but by how much we have left.”

“One business man confided, “I too have been thinking about following Christ and what that means, so I had this made.” He pulled up his sleeve to reveal a bracelet engraved with WWJD. It was custom-made of twenty-four karat gold. Maybe each of us can relate to this man—both his earnest desire to follow Jesus and, bound up in the materialism of our culture, his distorted execution of that desire.”

“There is nothing more sickening that talking about poverty over a fancy dinner.”

“Jesus was not simply a missionary to the poor. He was poor—born a baby refugee from the badlands of Nazareth, wandered the world a homeless rabbi, died the rotten death of insurrectionists and bandits on the cross, executed by an oppressive empire, buried in a borrowed tomb. Jesus was crucified not for helping poor people but for joining them. That is the Jesus we follow.”

I agree.