Brian Zahnd is the founder and lead pastor of Word of Life Church, a non-denominational Christian congregation in Saint Joseph, Missouri. Brian and his wife, Peri, founded the church in 1981. Brian is also the author of several books, including, Sinners in the Hands of a Loving God, Water to Wine, A Farewell To Mars, and Beauty Will Save the World.
In this interview Brian stretches us to new realms of understanding the Divine, love, forgiveness, and the way of peacemaking.
This is what you actually want.
It’s also what we actually need from you.
Re…spect.
It doesn’t mean to kiss up.
It means to look…again.
Re…spect. In other words, re…eye.
To respect is to take a second look.
The second look finds a book under the cover.
The second look sees the soul that swims beneath a role.
The first look shakes hands. The second look holds hearts.
The first look just sees shoes. The second look is now wearing them.
Look.
Again.
Whatever is renewing,
whatever connects,
whatever is kind,
whatever is lovely,
whatever can give us eyes,
whatever allows us to taste,
whatever is original,
whatever is gentle,
whatever is healing,
whatever is freeing,
whatever names the nameless,
whatever moves us,
whatever changes us,
whatever unites us,
whatever is present,
whatever is the song of your soul,
whatever is the poem in your pulse,
whoever you are…
do that.
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