Brennan Manning Interview

This interview is just what I needed to hear today. Actually, I think that this is what almost all of us needs to hear today and tomorrow and everyday.

Let me give you a little bit of the interview to wet your appetite....


Paula: What do you mean when you talk in Abba’s Child about “being loved in your sinfulness”?

Brennan: In some ways it’s about making peace with our brokenness as human beings who are made in His image but who woefully fall short. We somehow think that pop psychology or positive thinking or getting enough people to mirror back our lovableness is what will bring us to a place of self-acceptance. It doesn’t work that way.

Self-acceptance is the experience of salvation rooted in the acceptance of Jesus Christ on Calvary. And when we surrender with childlike confidence and trust that Jesus accepts us as we are--even in our sinfulness--that becomes the root of our own self-acceptance. Then, paradoxically, we are free to forget ourselves and turn our eyes toward Jesus and other people.


Good stuff eh? I will tell you that "Abba's Child" is probably one of my favorite and most influential books that I have ever read or even put my eyes on. The last time I read it, it changed my outlook and changed my life. Maybe I need to read it again.

To know that God loves me for who I am, right now - and not who I try to be, nor who I pretend to be - is one awesome and encouraging truth.

Oh, that we all may live in that truth. That we may savor it for all of its worth.

until next time.......