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Just got back from a sweet time in Sugar Land, Texas, home to the Sugar Land Vineyard and the headquarters of Vineyard: A Community of Churches.  It’s the deep South.  Tom DeLay’s old congressional district.  Senior Pastor of the Sugar Land Vineyard is Reagan Waggoner, named after you know who.  A talented younger pastor who has the Jesus nerve to teach on social justice.  A church I’d gladly attend every Sunday.  And a place I learned the wisdom of that Southern phrase, “y’all.”
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Writing a book, like having a conversation or putting words to your thoughts in any form, is an exercise in learning what you believe. It’s not just that you believe something and then put it into words. You discover what it is that you believe in the process of putting it into words. You read the book you write, or you hear the words formed by your thoughts in a conversation, for the first time. Like God in Genesis, chapter one, orchestrated the creation, made what he made, and then saw it himself for the first time, pondered it, and said, “It’s good.” Here’s a crack at summarizing what I believe after more than a few decades of organizing my life in fits and starts around Jesus of Nazareth and his path through this world:
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