The Ragamuffin Gospel Says We Can't Lose,

The Noonday Devil Of The Christian Life Is The Temptation To Lose The Inner Self While Preserving The Shell Of Edifying Behavior. Suddenly I Discover That I Am Ministering To Aids Victims To Enhance My Resume. I Find I Renounced Ice Cream For Lent To Lose Five Excess Pounds... I Have Fallen Victim To What T.s. Eliot Calls The Greatest Sin: To Do The Right Thing For The Wrong Reason.

We Have Been Given God In Our Souls And Christ In Our Flesh. We Have The Power To Believe Where Others Deny, To Hope Where Others Despair, To Love Where Others Hurt.

God Loves You Unconditionally, As You Are And Not As You Should Be, Because Nobody Is As They Should Be.

Creation Discloses A Power That Baffles Our Minds And Beggars Our Speech. We Are Enamored And Enchanted By God's Power. We Stutter And Stammer About God's Holiness. We Tremble Before God's Majesty... And Yet, We Grow Squeamish And Skittish Before God's Love.

We Must Go Out Into A Desert Of Some Kind (your Backyard Will Do) And Come Into A Personal Experience Of The Awesome Love Of God.