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Learning

"The most important things in our life are learned by trust, not by deduction from experiment."  -- Andy Crouch, Culture Making, 120

Points from Marti Olsen Laney

• Introverts are different and it's okay.
• Introverts are different in three main ways:
  1. Energy creation
  2. Response to stimulation
  3. Depth vs. Breadth
• Introverts do like people.
• The world needs introverts with their unique and precious qualities.

The Introvert Advantage, Marti Olsen Laney, 35

"Jesus Wants to Save Christians"

From the  back cover of Rob Bell and Don Golden's book Jesus Wants to Save Christians:

"There is a church in our area that recently added an addition to their building which cost more than $20 million.  Our local newspaper ran a front-page story not too long ago revealing that one in five people in our city lives in poverty.  This is a book about those two numbers.  It's a book about faith and fear, wealth and war, poverty, power, safety, terror, Bibles, bombs, and homeland insecurity; it's about empty empires and the truth that everybody's a priest; it's about oppression, occupation, and what happens when Christians support, animate, and participate in the very things Jesus came to set people free from.  It's about what it means to be a part of the church of Jesus in a world where some people fly planes into buildings while others pick up groceries in Hummers."