Living From a Place of Dreaming

Living From a Place of Dreaming

This is why I love Graham Cooke! (Excerpt taken from Living from a Place of Dreaming audio recording)


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What if the Gospel is so good, it’s too good to be true?
What if it’s so good it borders on fantasy?
What if the gospel is so astonishing and amazing you have to go to a place of beyond thinking into dreaming in order to articulate what it’s really, really like to be a Christian?

I sat on a plane going from one place to another place…. And I sat next to a guy and I’m reading my Bible and he said, “What’s that your reading?”

I said, “Oh, it’s a cook book.”

He said, “No it’s not! It’s a Bible.”

I said, “Dude, there’s no getting anything past you, ‘eh?”

And then he starts disparaging me because I’m reading a Bible. He said, “You’re one of those Christians?” And he’s really contemptuous.

So I turned around to him and I said, “You’re not a Christian???? What the hell is wrong with you? You’re not a Christian?! How can you live?!!! Do you have something defective in your brain? You’re actually sitting here telling me your not a Christian??? Oh my God! I’ve never met anyone like you!”

And he’s like really shocked. And I’m thinking, “Yeah right. Have a taste of your own stuff pal.”

“How can you live with yourself? Your not a Christian? Oh my God!!! You poor guy, would you like to be one? Can I tell you why I’m a Christian?... He is the most amazing, brilliant person I know. He’s the kindest person I know. He’s astonishing, He’s outrageous, he’s funny, he’s delightful, He is so huge in terms of his heart for me I tell you I can hardly stand to live through each day. The row of seats in front suddenly all tilt back. And you can see an ear sticking in between the seats and you look behind you and the guy behind you has got his nose in the crack and he’s listening. I said, “Let me tell you about Jesus. Oh my gosh.” And I start to tell him what my story is. How God is with me. How much God is for me. How much God loves me. How in all of His thoughts he has great thoughts about me….


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Why are we not ASTONISHED when someone isn't a believer?! Could it be that we are not living in wonder and awe of who God is????