Torrie

“Miller concludes: “To a culture that believes they ‘go to heaven’ based on whether or not they are morally pure, or that they understand some theological ideas, or that they are very spiritual, Jesus is completely unnecessary. At best, He is an afterthought, a technicality by which we become morally pure, or a subject of which we know, or a founding father of our woo-woo spirituality.”5”
― Carl Medearis, Speaking of Jesus: The Art of Not-Evangelism

“When we preach Christianity, we have to own it. When we preach Jesus, we don’t have to own anything. Jesus owns us. We don’t have to defend Him. We don’t even have to explain Him. All we have to do is point with our fingers, like the blind man in the book of John, and say, “There is Jesus. All I know is that He touched me, and where I was once blind, now I see.”
― Carl Medearis, Speaking of Jesus: The Art of Not-Evangelism

“Understanding the doctrine of forgiveness does not deliver us from sin. Jesus does.”
― Carl Medearis, Speaking of Jesus: The Art of Not-Evangelism

“Happily Single is also the precursor to Happily Taken. You simply can’t have one without the other.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence