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7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess QUOTES

7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess QUOTES

1 " There is something so marvelous about women comfortable in their own skin. "

― Jen Hatmaker , 7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess

2 " Constant prayer interrupts our ego trips and disrupts our toxic trajectories. "

― Jen Hatmaker , 7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess

3 " After Jesus' fast, he began healing, rescuing, redeeming. The Spirit filled up the emptiness Jesus created, launching him into ministry. In some supernatural way the abstinence from food was the catalyst for Jesus' unveiling; the real fireworks were next. "

― Jen Hatmaker , 7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess

4 " I marvel at how out of place simple, humble Jesus would be in today's American churches. "

― Jen Hatmaker , 7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess

5 " While it is easy to become paralyzed by the world's suffering and the inequalities created by corruption and greed, we actually hold immense power for change, simply by virtue of our wealth and economic independence. Because we decide where our dollars go. Never has so much wealth been so concentrated; our prosperity is unprecedented. If enough of us decided to share, we would unleash a torrent of justice to sweep away disparity, extreme poverty, and hopelessness. The world is waiting. Our kids are watching. Time is wasting. Are we willing? "

― Jen Hatmaker , 7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess

6 " The church the Bible described is exciting and adventurous and wrought with sacrifice. It cost believers everything, and they still came. "

― Jen Hatmaker , 7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess

7 " I approach this project in the spirit of a fast: an intentional reduction, a deliberate abstinence to summon God's movement in my life. A fast creates margin for God to move. "

― Jen Hatmaker , 7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess

8 " If i bought something that didn't warrant more than three wearings, I did not need it. "

― Jen Hatmaker , 7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess

9 " Sometimes the best way to bring good news to the poor is to bring actual good news to the poor. It appears a good way to bring relief to the oppressed is to bring real relief to the oppressed. It's almost like Jesus meant what He said. When you're desperate, usually the best news you can receive is food, water, shelter. These provisions communicate God's presence infinitely more than a tract or Christian performance in the local park. They convey, "God loves you so dearly, He sent people to your rescue. "

― Jen Hatmaker , 7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess

10 " Be patient. Do the best with what you know. When you know more, adjust the trajectory. "

― Jen Hatmaker , 7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess

11 " ...when the exhaustive exegesis of God's Word doesn't create people transformed into the image of Jesus, we have missed the forest for the trees. "

― Jen Hatmaker , 7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess

12 " Usually the things we think we need become the very things we need a break from. "

― Jen Hatmaker , 7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess

13 " I'm going to bed tonight grateful for warmth, an advantage so expected it barely registers. (…) I won't defile my blessings by imagining that I deserve them. Until every human receives the dignity I casually enjoy, I pray my heart aches with tension and my belly rumbles for injustice. "

― Jen Hatmaker , 7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess

14 " We've invented a thousand shades of gray, devising a comfortable Christian existence we can all live with—super awesome, except the Bible doesn't support it. According to Scripture, no real disciple serves God while addicted to the dollar. There is no sheep/goat hybrid. There is no middle road. There is no true believer who hates his brother. Grayed-down discipleship is an easier sell, but it created pretend Christians, obsessing over Scriptures we like while conspicuously ignoring the rest. Until God asks for everything and we answer, "It's yours," we don't yet have ears to hear or eyes to see. "

― Jen Hatmaker , 7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess

15 " As Jesus explained, the right things have to die so the right things can live—we die to selfishness, greed, power, accumulation, prestige, and self-preservation, giving life to community, generosity, compassion, mercy, brotherhood, kindness, and love. The gospel will die in the toxic soil of self. "

― Jen Hatmaker , 7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess

16 " I suspect God is more glorified in a humble room of earnest worshipers than a massive production designed to sound "relevant" to the listeners but no longer relevant to God. When the worship of God turns into a "worship experience," we have derailed as the body of Christ. "

― Jen Hatmaker , 7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess

17 " Teaching by example, radical obedience, justice, mercy, activism, and sacrifice wholly inspires me. I'm at that place where "well done" trumps "well said." When I see kingdom work in the middle of brokenness, when mission transitions from the academic soil of the mind into the sacrificial work of someone's hands, I am utterly affected. Obedience inspires me. Servant leaders inspire me. Humility inspires me. Talking heads dissecting apologetics stopped inspiring me a few years ago. "

― Jen Hatmaker , 7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess

18 " They try to assign Him the power and public sway He always resisted; people want to make a starlet out of Jesus. But He insisted His power was activated in the margins. Jesus didn't redeem the world on the throne but through the cross. I don't want to consume the redemption Jesus made possible then spurn the methods by which He achieved it. Jesus' kingdom continues in the same manner it was launched; through humility, subversion, love, sacrifice; through calling empty religion to reform and behaving like we believe the meek will indeed inherit the earth. We cannot carry the gospel to the poor and lowly while emulating the practices of the rich and powerful. "

― Jen Hatmaker , 7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess

19 " We cannot carry the gospel to the poor and lowly while emulating the practices of the rich and powerful. We’ve been invited into a story that begins with humility and ends with glory; never the other way around. "

― Jen Hatmaker , 7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess

20 " I'm going to bed tonight grateful for warmth, an advantage so expected it barely registers. May my privileges continue to drive me downward to my brothers and sisters without. Greater yet, I'm tired of calling the suffering "brothers and sisters" when I'd never allow my biological siblings to suffer likewise. That's just hypocrisy veiled in altruism. I won't defile my blessings by imagining that I deserve them. Until every human receives the dignity I casually enjoy, I pray my heart aches with tension and my belly rumbles for injustice. "

― Jen Hatmaker , 7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess