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| Introduction: Spark-Hunting | 13 | |
| Themes From the Book | 22 | |
| Section 1 | The Natural World | |
| The Weather of the Soul | 27 | |
| Dawn: Hallowing the Beginning | 28 | |
| Wind: Opening to New Life | 29 | |
| The Sun: Mother-Father of Us All | 31 | |
| Shape-Shift: Pretend You Are the Rising Sun | 34 | |
| Cloudy Days: Heavenly Comforter | 35 | |
| Rain: Discovering Our Vegetative Soul | 36 | |
| Snow: Heaven on Earth | 38 | |
| Rainbows: The Messy Beauty of Emotions | 39 | |
| Thunderstorms: Shattering the Familiar World | 40 | |
| Creature Teachers: Plants and Animals | 43 | |
| Trees: A Teacher for Life | 44 | |
| Shape-Shift: Pretend You Are a Tree | 46 | |
| Trees and Humans: A Sacred Marriage | 47 | |
| Weeping Willows: Shelter in Time of Sorrow | 48 | |
| Pits and Seeds: Failure as Growth | 50 | |
| Soil: Caring for the Self | 52 | |
| Flowers: Turning Toward the Light | 53 | |
| Frogs: Speaking and Acting From a Deep Place | 54 | |
| Ducks: The Paddling Beneath the Glide | 56 | |
| Migrating Birds: That Most Wild and Necessary Journey | 58 | |
| Shape-Shift: Pretend You Are a Migrating Bird | 60 | |
| Elemental Wisdom | 61 | |
| Rock: Being Strong, Sturdy, and Still | 62 | |
| Sand: Harmonizing the Elements of Life | 64 | |
| Shape-Shift: Pretend You Are Made of Sand | 66 | |
| Heat: The Energy of Life | 67 | |
| Gases: Lowering the Pressure | 68 | |
| Water and Air: The Unseen Medium of Love | 70 | |
| Ice and Snow: Miraculous Transformations | 71 | |
| Sacred Landscapes | 73 | |
| The Outdoors: Our Truer Home | 74 | |
| A Lake: Being Still Waters | 76 | |
| Shape-Shift: Pretend You Are a Lake | 78 | |
| The Desert: The Gifts of Desolation | 79 | |
| Mountains: The Spiritual Ascent | 80 | |
| Shape-Shift: Pretend You Are a Mountain | 83 | |
| Polar Exploration: Striving Toward the Ultimate | 84 | |
| The Natural World: Moving Beyond Moralities | 86 | |
| Wilderness: A Wildness Beyond the Self | 88 | |
| Section 2 | Object Lessons | |
| The Car, a Spiritual Guide | 93 | |
| Driving: Lessons for the Highway of Life | 94 | |
| Cars: A Teacher of Self-Care | 95 | |
| Windshield Wipers: The Practices That Clear Our Vision | 97 | |
| Shape-Shift: Pretend You Have Windshield Wipers | 100 | |
| Speed Bumps: Progress Through Slowing Down | 101 | |
| The Passenger Seat: Surrendering Control | 102 | |
| Openings and Closings | 105 | |
| Opening and Shutting Doors: The Benefits of a Good Barrier | 106 | |
| Unlocking With a Key: Penetrating the Barriers of Life | 107 | |
| Shape-Shift: Pretend You Have the Key | 110 | |
| Opening a Soda Can: Knowing When to Keep a Secret | 111 | |
| Shaving With a Razor: The Merits of a Daily Practice | 112 | |
| Throwing Things Away: Creating Space and Time | 114 | |
| Recycling Garbage: Using the Trash of Our Life | 115 | |
| Uncapping a Fire Hydrant: Releasing Hidden Resources | 117 | |
| Stillness and Motion | 121 | |
| Still Things: Learning to Be, Not Just Do | 122 | |
| Shape-Shift: Pretend You Are Your Own Clothes | 124 | |
| Beds: Rest and Support | 125 | |
| Crutches: Learning to Lean | 126 | |
| Steps, Stairs, and Escalators: The Spiritual Climb | 128 | |
| Magnets: The Force of Spiritual Alignment | 130 | |
| Flags: The Wind Made Visible | 131 | |
| Sailboats: Blown by the Spiritual Breezes | 133 | |
| Shape-Shift: Pretend You Are a Sailboat | 135 | |
| In-Sight: Looking Deeply Into Things | 137 | |
| Stained Glass: Illuminating the Universe | 138 | |
| Mirrors: Reflections on Our Oneness | 140 | |
| Contact Lenses: Clearing Our Spiritual Vision | 142 | |
| Cups: Beyond the Half-Empty and Half-Full | 143 | |
| Guns: The Distorted Voice of the Soul | 145 | |
| Money: "Thou Visible God" | 146 | |
| Section 3 | Human Being | |
| The Wisdom of the Body | 151 | |
| The Body: Lover of the World | 152 | |
| The Human Face: Each the Face of God | 153 | |
| Standing: The Unity of Earth and Sky | 155 | |
| Walking: Falling With Style | 156 | |
| Footprints: The Presence of the Past | 158 | |
| Sleep: Re-connecting to the Source | 159 | |
| Insomnia: The Blessing Wrapped Inside the Curse | 161 | |
| Pajamas: Friend of Body and Soul | 162 | |
| The Belly Button: A Holy Place | 164 | |
| Shape-Shift: Pretend You Are in the Womb | 166 | |
| Death and Birth: The Unlikely Twins | 167 | |
| Coming to Our Senses | 169 | |
| Color: The Unnecessary Beauty of the World | 170 | |
| Smell: The Mystical Sense | 171 | |
| Whispering: The Harmony of Speech and Silence | 173 | |
| Bells: Hearing the Origins | 174 | |
| Sex: The Ecstasy of Creation | 176 | |
| The Caress: Held Close by the World | 178 | |
| Mind Well | 181 | |
| Pens and Pencils: A Word to the Wise? | 182 | |
| Books: Mind-Melds and Virtual Realities | 183 | |
| Novels and Plays: Appreciating the Drama of Our Life | 184 | |
| The Computer: Model for a Well-Functioning Mind | 186 | |
| The Worldwide Web: www.Connection | 188 | |
| "Home": What's In a Word? | 190 | |
| Shape-shift: Pretend You Are Coming Home | 192 | |
| The Music of Mood and Emotion | 193 | |
| Tears: Cleansing and Healing | 194 | |
| Cheerfulness: Learning to Cheer for Yourself | 195 | |
| Love: The Limitless Ocean | 197 | |
| Shape-Shift: Pretend You Are the Ocean | 199 | |
| Fear: The Hidden Messenger of Love | 201 | |
| Joy: The Mothership Calling Us Home | 203 | |
| Sports and Child's Play | 205 | |
| Play: The Soul's Delight | 206 | |
| Feeding a Baby: Messy Growth | 207 | |
| Bubble Gum: Expanding the Spirit | 209 | |
| Buried Treasure: Searching for Spiritual Riches | 210 | |
| Football: Moving the Ball Downfield | 212 | |
| Sudden-Death Playoffs: Playing With Death and Eternity | 214 | |
| Balloons: Death as Liberation | 216 | |
| Shape-Shift: Pretend You Are a Balloon | 218 | |
| Home Run: The Journey Home | 220 | |
| Merry-Go-Rounds: Coming Home to the Divine | 222 | |
| Section 4 | The Universe, Our Home | |
| Heavenly Physics | 227 | |
| Sun and Moon: The Loving Eyes of God | 228 | |
| Stars: Gazing Upon the Infinite | 230 | |
| Celestial Space: Where Is God? | 232 | |
| The Night Sky: Death as Revelation | 234 | |
| Light: The Eternal in Time | 235 | |
| The Dark Universe: The Glory of All We Don't Know | 236 | |
| Quantum Mechanics: The Creativity of Chance | 238 | |
| Wormholes: Passage to Another World | 240 | |
| The Big Bang: How Once We Were One | 242 | |
| Shape-Shift: Pretend You Are at the Big Bang | 244 | |
| Epilogue: Tips for Spark-Hunters | 245 | |
| Acknowledgments | 252 |
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Nancy Rosborough
reviewed Sparks of the Divine: Finding Inspiration in Our Everyday World on December 01, 2014
Sparks of the Divine: Finding Inspiration in Our Everyday World
An excellent, concise and encouraging guide to Jewish evangelism
You Bring the Bagels, I'll Bring the Gospel is a beginner's guide to Jewish evangelism that leaves no stone unturned. It helps Christians deal with some of the biggest challenges and deepest wounds in the history of ministry to Jews. At the same time, it helps you see that Christians can in fact learn much about their own faith from the Jewishness of Yeshua himself and the New Testament, or B'rit Chadashah. To aid in this, Rubin cites the Complete Jewish Bible in most of his verse references, a translation geared towards showing the Jewish culture and language often missed in English translations.
The first step to effectively witness to Jews as a Gentile, says Rubin, we must first establish credibility. This is done by learning about the Jewish faith, history and culture. We must truly be interested in the people to whom we are trying to witness. Second, we must get to know our audience. Rubin reminds his readers that just as every attender in any given church can be plotted on a diverse spectrum of beliefs, so also can Jews. Though there are four general groups (Orthodox [also Ultra-orthodox], Reformed, Conservative and Reconstructionist), Jews do not necessarily ascribe to all the beliefs and practices of the group to whom they belong. Generally speaking, Jews are united by their religion'centered around study of the Torah and the Talmud'and their culture. To be able to empathize and communicate effectively means doing a deep study of both. Attend a Shabbat service, celebrate a Jewish holiday like Passover or Purim, accept your Jewish friends invitation to his wedding or his sons Bar Mitzvah'be interested, but most importantly, be a friend. Though many may live among and look like your fellow Americans, they often have very different traditions and cultural experiences, sometimes involving persecution.
In the final section of the book, Rubin deals with various barriers Jews have to belief in Yeshua. To start, he deals with handling questions. Inquisitive and natural debaters, Jews ask keen questions. In this section, Rubin equips his audience in how to handle four types of questions that they might be faced with. This chapter is useful not only for Jewish evangelism, but evangelism in general. For each type of question'challenge, trap, false and test'Rubin shows how Yeshua himself effectively handled these in the New Testament.
The final chapters of the book deal with some of the historical, theological and personal barriers to the Gospel Jews often have. Christians must acknowledge the centuries of anti-Semitism that scares our histories and be willing to admit their inability to explain events such as the Holocaust or the Spanish Inquisition. They must also be willing to confront their Jewish friend's belief that since he is chosen, he is therefore not in need of substitutionary atonement. They must also be willing to help their Jewish friend see that following the Messiah Yeshua does not mean losing one's Jewish identity, though it may mean they get ostracized by their family. Dealing with these issues doesn't always require answers. It does require friendship.
The overall tone of Rubin's book is one of earnest encouragement. As a Messianic Jew himself, Rubin longs to see his people come to faith in their promised Messiah, and he wants to include fellow Christians in this effort. Thanks to the work of people like him, the number of Jewish believers in Jesus has been growing steadily worldwide for decades. Christians today must join in this effort to reach what is still largely a lost people group. As with any other group from another culture with whom we live, we must recognize our mission, one which once belonged to Jews and now belongs to all believers in the Messiah: to be a light to the nations.
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