Benjamin L. Corey
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Undiluted: Rediscovering the Radical Message of Jesus
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2014
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Unafraid: Moving Beyond Fear-Based Faith
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2019
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A Living Alternative: Anabaptist Christianity in a Post-Christendom World
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2014
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The Story of Hope
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2004
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Christian Outsiders: A Spiritual Journey for the Rest of Us
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2015
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“When we look at the undiluted, radical message of Jesus, we see that it was never about wearing a theological label, subscribing to a particular theological structure, or even about becoming a Christian. The undiluted message of Jesus is, and always has been, a straightforward invitation to follow him, and to learn to be like him.”
― Undiluted: Rediscovering the Radical Message of Jesus
― Undiluted: Rediscovering the Radical Message of Jesus
“Jesus is, and always has been, a person we can expect to be doing things we don't expect him to do, in the places where we don't think he'd be, with the people we didn't think he'd be with. His enemies were those who dedicated themselves to obeying every rule in the Bible. His best friends were sex workers, social misfits, and everyone else the religious leaders had declared were "out." I believe our spiritual journey gets much richer the moment we accept this, and accept that Jesus seems to have not just opted out of our boundary systems entirely, but is actually busy walking behind us and erasing the lines we've drawn.”
― Unafraid: Moving Beyond Fear-Based Faith
― Unafraid: Moving Beyond Fear-Based Faith
“In biblical Greek the word "repent" comes from a military term similar to the command "about face." In...sermons, repentance is all about "turning away' from sin, and certainly repentance would include an element of that. However, the deeper flavor of his word is less about turning away from something and more about turning toward something. As much as the word "repent" makes many of us recoil, what if it is enjoining us to turn away from our fear of God and to turn toward the love of God? what if we simply confess that God is love, and then put a period at the end of the sentence? God is love. Period.”
― Unafraid: Moving Beyond Fear-Based Faith
― Unafraid: Moving Beyond Fear-Based Faith