Psalm 24:1.
15 1 Peter 5:8.
16 1 Thessalonians 5:21.
17 Acts 14:17.
18 Matthew 26:10 and Mark 14:6.
19 At that point I was thinking that she could start a recovery group for witches. It could be called “WA” for Witches Anonymous.
20 Exodus 3:5.
MOVEMENT FOUR: TASSELS
1 Numbers 15:38–40.
2 David cuts off the corner of Saul’s “garment” in the back of a cave (1 Sam. 24:4), and Jesus talks about going into your “prayer closet,” which meant folding your prayer shawl over your head and arms (Matt. 6:6).
3 Malachi 4:2 NIV (Colorado Springs: International Bible Society, 1978, 1984).
4 Luke 8:43–48.
5 The first time I heard Dwight Pryor address this, he made two columns and explained the difference between a legal transaction understanding and a holistic understanding and said that we need to embrace both. I thought I was going to fall out of my chair. He is the one who uses the phrase “the cross for us and the cross in us.” He sponsors seminars he calls “Haverim” (from the Hebrew word for “friends”) at which he teaches for a week. Every day, all day he teaches, and it is stunning. Check his website www.jcstudies.com for where he will be teaching next.
6 John 5:24.
7 Ephesians 1:10.
8 For a masterful depiction of the mystery behind the mystery, read Susan Howatch. I recommend starting with Glittering Images (New York: Knopf, 1987), the first of her Starbridge novels. You will get sucked in and have to read her next eight novels.
9 Parker Palmer’s book Let Your Life Speak (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1999) was my introduction to this great man.
10 Mark 8:36.
MOVEMENT FIVE: DUST
1 Bava Batra 21a.
2 Josephus, Against Apion 1:60.
3 The person who has opened me up to the first century world of Jesus more than anyone is Ray Vander Laan. He is a teacher, scholar, hiker of Israel—an amazing man. His teachings are available at www.followtherabbi.com, an exhaustive resource for those interested in Jesus’s world. The levels of education and the walking on water and the Caesarea sections in this movement were insights sparked by things I’ve heard Ray say. Much credit goes to the man from Hamilton.
4 Luke 2:46–47.
5 See John 15:15.
6 For a fascinating glimpse into what this looked like, read As a Driven Leaf by Milton Steinberg (New York: Behrman, 1996), a novel about rabbis and disciples.
7 Matthew 4:18–22.
8 Google “Caesarea Philippi” and you will see what I mean.
9 John 15:16.
10 Matthew 17:14–20.
11 Matthew 28:19.
MOVEMENT SIX: NEW
1 Luke 11:46.
2 Matthew 23:13.
3 James 3:2.
4 Romans 3:23.
5 John 3:3.
6 Colossians 3:3.
7 Colossians 3:1.
8 Colossians 3:7; see also Ephesians 4:20–24.
9 2 Corinthians 5:17.
10 Hebrews 2:10; 5:9.
11 Colossians 3:12.
12 Philippians 3:16.
13 Romans 8:1.
14 John 17:21.
15 Romans 6:11.
16 John 5:24.
17 You must read The Divine Conspiracy by Dallas Willard (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1998).
18 I heard Stuart Briscoe say this to a group of people in Milwuakee in 1997.
