BOOKS: The Irresistible Revolution by Shane Claiborne

This is one of my new reads. The Irresistible Revolution by Shane Claiborne is an honest fresh look at someone doing things a different way b/c his old way wasn't working.

Read this below to see how his journey kind of got started.

Spiritual Bulimia

"So as we do in our culture, I thought perhaps I needed to buy more stuff, Christian stuff. Luckily, I found an entire Christian industrial complex ready to help with Christian music, bumper stickers, T-shirts, books, and even candy ("Testa-mints"). They had lists of bands and the Christian alternatives to them, so I rid of all my old CD's. And I bought books, devotionals, T-shirts. I developed a common illness that haunts Western Christianity. I call it spiritual bulimia. Bulimia, of course, is a tragic eating disorder, largely linked to idenitity and image, where folks consume large amounts of food but vomit it up before it has a chance to digest. I developed the spiritual form of it where I did my devotions, read all the new Christian books and saw the Christian movies, and then vomited information up to friends, small groups, and pastors. But it never had the chance to digest. I had gorged myself on all the products of the industrial complex but was spiritually starving to death. I was marked by an overconsumptive but malnourished spirituality, suffocated by Christianity but thirsty for God."

An exert from The Irresistible Revolution by Shane Claiborne.

The Simple Way (play the video if you want to be blessed)