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Strong and Weak: Embracing a Life of Love, Risk and True Flourishing (Andy Crouch)
- Seu destaque ou posição 930-932 | Adicionado: quarta-feira, 29 de março de 2017 01:40:23

Indeed, you know you are encountering a situation of injustice when a few people in a system enjoy authority without vulnerability at the price of most people in that system suffering vulnerability without authority.
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Strong and Weak: Embracing a Life of Love, Risk and True Flourishing (Andy Crouch)
- Seu marcador ou posição 935 | Adicionado: quarta-feira, 29 de março de 2017 01:41:10


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Strong and Weak: Embracing a Life of Love, Risk and True Flourishing (Andy Crouch)
- Seu destaque ou posição 965-967 | Adicionado: quinta-feira, 30 de março de 2017 00:45:57

In the long run, unless you are delivered by a miracle of grace, you will find that the very thing that promised authority without vulnerability has betrayed you, handing you over to the depths of suffering—vulnerability without authority.
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Strong and Weak: Embracing a Life of Love, Risk and True Flourishing (Andy Crouch)
- Seu destaque ou posição 1039-1041 | Adicionado: quinta-feira, 30 de março de 2017 00:58:32

But the goal of a police force can be neither conquest nor control. The goal of police power is flourishing—actually increasing the capacity for meaningful action in a community. In a community with effective policing, more people have more authority. Military authority is zero-sum; police authority, properly used, increases the total authority in a community.
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Strong and Weak: Embracing a Life of Love, Risk and True Flourishing (Andy Crouch)
- Seu destaque ou posição 1073-1076 | Adicionado: sexta-feira, 31 de março de 2017 00:12:22

The first things any idol takes from its worshipers are their relationships. Idols know and care nothing for the exchange of authority and vulnerability that happens in the context of love—and the demonic powers that lurk behind them, and lure us to them, despise love. So the best early warning sign that you are drifting toward Exploiting—seeking authority without vulnerability in your work, in your entertainment, in alcohol or coffee or
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Strong and Weak: Embracing a Life of Love, Risk and True Flourishing (Andy Crouch)
- Seu destaque ou posição 1084-1084 | Adicionado: sexta-feira, 31 de março de 2017 00:13:55

The idol that begins by promising authority without vulnerability inexorably ends up delivering vulnerability without authority.
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Strong and Weak: Embracing a Life of Love, Risk and True Flourishing (Andy Crouch)
- Seu destaque ou posição 1340-1342 | Adicionado: terça-feira, 4 de abril de 2017 17:40:28

Indeed, public recognition of our authority and praise for our faithfulness can actually be fuel for the fire of burnout, compounding our sense of isolation in our loneliness and need.
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Strong and Weak: Embracing a Life of Love, Risk and True Flourishing (Andy Crouch)
- Seu marcador ou posição 1335 | Adicionado: terça-feira, 4 de abril de 2017 17:41:31


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Strong and Weak: Embracing a Life of Love, Risk and True Flourishing (Andy Crouch)
- Seu marcador ou posição 1083 | Adicionado: terça-feira, 4 de abril de 2017 17:41:58


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Strong and Weak: Embracing a Life of Love, Risk and True Flourishing (Andy Crouch)
- Seu marcador ou posição 1312 | Adicionado: terça-feira, 4 de abril de 2017 17:47:11


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Strong and Weak: Embracing a Life of Love, Risk and True Flourishing (Andy Crouch)
- Seu destaque ou posição 1337-1342 | Adicionado: quarta-feira, 5 de abril de 2017 00:13:02

No one who has stepped into the story of this broken world is exempt—burnout is a risk for anyone who cares for others’ flourishing. It emerges from our deepest callings and giftedness, but it feeds on our deepest brokenness. When people praise our commitment to a needy child, a chronically ill spouse or an underserved community, but we have no one who knows the depths of our fatigue, disappointment or despair, the gap between authority and vulnerability can become overwhelming. Indeed, public recognition of our authority and praise for our faithfulness can actually be fuel for the fire of burnout, compounding our sense of isolation in our loneliness and need.
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Strong and Weak: Embracing a Life of Love, Risk and True Flourishing (Andy Crouch)
- Seu destaque ou posição 1475-1477 | Adicionado: quarta-feira, 5 de abril de 2017 01:02:20

There is something deep in the human heart that knows that the last enemy to be conquered is death. Death is the last enemy not just because it takes life but because the fear of death prevents real life. The fear of loss has robbed our world of more life and more flourishing than any actual loss we could ever suffer.
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Strong and Weak: Embracing a Life of Love, Risk and True Flourishing (Andy Crouch)
- Seu marcador ou posição 1511 | Adicionado: quarta-feira, 5 de abril de 2017 01:07:05


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Strong and Weak: Embracing a Life of Love, Risk and True Flourishing (Andy Crouch)
- Seu destaque ou posição 1725-1728 | Adicionado: quinta-feira, 6 de abril de 2017 10:07:38

But what unlocks that authority is the willingness to expose ourselves to meaningful loss—to become vulnerable, woundable in the world. For this, too, is what it means to bear the divine image—if the One through whom all things were made spoke into being a world where he himself could be betrayed, wounded and killed. What we are missing, to become like him, is not ultimately more authority—it is more vulnerability.
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Strong and Weak: Embracing a Life of Love, Risk and True Flourishing (Andy Crouch)
- Seu marcador ou posição 1868 | Adicionado: quinta-feira, 6 de abril de 2017 10:17:01