“See how they love one another.” Not a bad gauge of health. “There was no needy person among them.” A better metric would be hard to find. There is one line that stopped me in my tracks: “And awe came upon everyone.” It would seem that, quite possibly, the ultimate measure of health in any community might well reside in our ability to stand in awe at what folks have to carry rather than in judgment at how they carry it.”
―Gregory Boyle, Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship
What is the scripture reference for the third statement. I found the first two in Acts 4:34 but the other eludes me.
Hey Sonia, not sure as I haven’t read Boyle’s book but I am guessing it is a different translation of the end of Acts 4:33, “great grace was upon them all.” -Webmaster Matthias
“Awe precedes faith.” — Heschel