"The movement from Haran to Canaan is the journey across the chasm. We have pass definitively beyond beliefs to faith. Yes, we are called to believe in Jesus. But our belief summons us to something greater, to faith in him. Faith that will force us to sink into consciousness of Jesus, to embrace a lifestyle of prayer, unselfishness, goodness and involvement in building the new heaven and the new earth."
"When God called Abraham to abandon the security of the world familiar to him, he also asked him to forsake his polytheistic religious beliefs. All his previous concepts of God faded away. The same process is necessary in the Christian commitment. When we encounter the God revealed by and in Jesus Christ, we have to revise all our previous thinking about God. Jesus, as the revealer of the Godhead, defines God as love. In light of this revelation, we have to abandon the cankerous, worm-eaten structure of legalism, moralism, and perfectionism that corrupts the Good News into an ethical code rather than a love affair."
"So many Christians I know stop at Jesus. They remain on the Way without going where the Way leads them--to the Father. They just want to be brothers and sisters without being son and daughters."
Brennan Manning, The Signature of Jesus
