Jesus told people to cut off their hand if it caused them to sin (Matthew 5)
To take nothing with them but the clothes on their back (Luke 9)
To lose their life, in order to find true life (Matthew 16)
Sometimes your greatest growth comes from what you’re willing to trim away.
Everything we do to, with, and around others teaches them what God is like. Whether accurately or inaccurately.
This is what it means to be a Christian.
If God is love
and we want to be faithful to God
then love is an absolute non-negotiable
Because if God is love
and we forsake love
then we forsake God
A big part of pastoral work is challenging the beliefs in people that are not of God and affirming the ones that are.
Lord, forgive us when we do the opposite.
"Despite evangelicalism's strident criticism of American society and how it has strayed from its Christian moorings, they have thoroughly adapted to American popular culture. Instead of creating a Christian American, evangelicals have Americanized Christianity."
- Richard Kyle
#PoweroftheDog would be a better movie if you replaced Benedict Cumberbatch with…
Michael Fassbender
Ben Foster
Shia LaBeouf
or Jon Bernthal
I said what I said