Sublime

radical simplification.

The difference is that now we give out of a new, grounded center of ourselves in God.

Procure tomar consciência delas e do motivo pelo qual você está insatisfeito. Examine todas as situações que disparam em você esse sentimento e muito provavelmente você encontrará ali sinais e pistas para identificar aquele momento crucial de sua infância no qual houve o rompimento com a sua essência.

But following the suit of the new corporate timekeepers, congregations needed to become fast places that gave people resources to cope with the overall increased pace of society, helping these accelerating people find purpose when the pace of life seemed to strip it away.8 It was an innovative cultural conformity, because such churches never oppose

Our attention is focused on classifying, analyzing, and determining levels of wrongness rather than on what we and others need and are not getting.

For the gut or body types, slowing down, creating intentional pauses, and in some cases simply ceasing all activity become the correction to what is out of control in their active lives. Practices marked by stillness help dismantle the lie “I am what I do” and loosen the addictive grasp that power and control have in and through this center.

The church loses personhood, and resonance (becoming alienated from life), when its relations are made into instruments for acquiring resources. And relationships that are made into instruments can be used only for accruing resources.

The church loses community when its relationships become instruments. When it loses community, it loses the resonance of revelation itself. It is no longer a living community (a life-community, a phrase Bonhoeffer uses that I’ll unpack below) but is alienated from the world and therefore from the living God, who moves in the world as the minister o