Daily Thought: A Beautiful Transparency

"To be alive is to be broken.  And to be broken is to stand in need of grace.  Honesty keeps us in touch with our neediness and the truth that we are saved sinners.  There is a beautiful transparency to be honest disciples who never wear a false face and do not pretend to be anything but who they are." ~ Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel, p. 85

Daily Thought: Jesus Comes for Sinners

"Here is revelation bright as the evening star: Jesus comes for sinners, for those as outcast as tax collectors and for those caught up in squalid choices and failed dreams.  He comes for corporate executives, street people, superstars, farmers, hookers, addicts, IRS agents, AIDS victims, and even used car salesmen.  Jesus not only talks with these people but dines with them—fully aware that His table fellowship with sinners will raise the eyebrows of religious bureaucrats who hold up the robes and insignia of their authority to justify their condemnation of the truth and their rejection of the gospel of grace." ~ Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel, p. 23