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The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out

Brennan Manning

Paperback | Pages: 240 pages

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Title	:	The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
Author	:	Brennan Manning
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 240 pages
Published	:	June 8th 2000 by Multnomah (first published December 1st 1990)
Categories	:	Christian. Nonfiction. Religion. Christianity. Faith. Christian Living. Spirituality

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A Furious Love Is Hot on Your Trail!

Many believers feel stunted in their Christian growth. We beat ourselves up over our failures and, in the process, pull away from God because we subconsciously believe He tallies our defects and hangs His head in disappointment. In this newly repackaged edition--now with full appendix, study questions, and the author's own epilogue, ""Ragamuffin" Ten Years Later," Brennan Manning reminds us that nothing could be further from the truth. The Father beckons us to Himself with a "furious love" that burns brightly and constantly. Only when we truly embrace God's grace can we bask in the joy of a gospel that enfolds the most needy of His flock--the "ragamuffins."

Are you bedraggled, beat-up, burnt-out?

Most of us believe in God's grace--in theory. But somehow we can't seem to apply it in our daily lives. We continue to see Him as a small-minded bookkeeper, tallying our failures and successes on a score sheet.

Yet God gives us His grace, willingly, no matter what we've done. We come to Him as ragamuffins--dirty, bedraggled, and beat-up. And when we sit at His feet, He smiles upon us, the chosen objects of His "furious love."

Brennan Manning 's now-classic meditation on grace and what it takes to access it--simple honesty--has changed thousands of lives. Now with a Ragamuffin's thirty-day spiritual journey guide, it will change yours, too.

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Original Title:	The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
ISBN:	1576737160 (ISBN13: 9781576737163)
Edition Language:	English

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If you are interested in the Christian faith but find it self-righteous and restricting, this book might be a refreshing change of pace. This writer definitely refrains from judgement, and makes the case for self-acceptance of your own frailty and affirms that God eagerly takes on "special cases", and he proves we all somehow fall in that category. It is a humble book that gently puts it arms around those who have failed miserably in their faith and yet still want to try to find their way toward

Typical evangelical nonsequiturs: youre radically loved but also totally depraved and dark with sin, wrapped around the subtle mind fuck of if you dont get youre loved, youre doing it wrong, so just GET IT. A few quotes and stories were ok, but hard to put it all together. It was clear Manning would like get away from the totally depraved sinner, you deserve nothing idea, but its really hard to change this belief that evangelicalism thrives upon without radically changing what you believe about

I probably would have eaten this book up in college. Would have given it 5 stars and raved about it. But, then, I didn't actually read that much of my Bible back then. Now I read it. All if it. Not just the pretty parts. And I've discovered a multidimensional God who is bigger and more complex than Manning's half-realized sweeping claims at logic and truth. I'm grateful for a loving God. I'm grateful to be saved by grace. But Manning's version of God is a 2 dimensional fairy tale.

Such a good book! I really cannot believe its taken me this long to get around to it.

While I'm typically not a fan of the "Christian Living" books, this one I've held onto and re-read (and passed along) because it is unique in its purpose and message. It's not for someone who thinks they "have it all together"; it's for the jaded, broken, wandering & wondering. I don't think the "average Christian" is open to or even capable of truly understanding its message.This book "gave a body" to this abstract, difficult-to-grasp concept of grace and the part it should play in our

Honestly, I teeter-tottered on this book.Some parts stirred my soul even to tears with the truth of the Gospel. Others furrowed my brow, leaving question marks in the margins. Sometimes this was all within the span of a single page.Upon reflection, I've come to this conclusion:FOR BELIEVERS (for sons and daughters of God), the essence of this book should strike a beautiful chord in our hearts and minds. I like Manning's words:"He is the only God man has ever heard of who loves sinners... Through

The best way I can describe this book is to quote from it: ---------------------------------------------------------------"When I get honest, I admit I am a bundle of paradoxes. I believe and I doubt, I hope and get discouraged, I love and I hate, I feel bad about feeling good, I feel guilty about not feeling guilty. I am trusting and suspicious. I am honest and I still play games. Aristotle said I am a rational animal; I say I am an angel with an incredible capacity for beer. To live by grace