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As a white woman, I’ve since thought a lot about the difference between empathy and shared experience.
“The future of Christian social witness cannot assume the gospel, but must articulate it explicitly and coherently.”
― Onward: Engaging the Culture without Losing the Gospel
― Onward: Engaging the Culture without Losing the Gospel
“If God’s purpose for your job is that you serve the human community, then the way to serve God best is to do the job as well as it can be done.”
― Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Work
― Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Work
“The church is a signpost of God’s coming kingdom (Eph. 3:10), a preview to the watching world of what the reign of God in Christ is to look like, a colony of the kingdom coming.”
― Onward: Engaging the Culture without Losing the Gospel
― Onward: Engaging the Culture without Losing the Gospel
“Everyone will be forgotten, nothing we do will make any difference, and all good endeavours, even the best, will come to naught.
Unless there is God. If the God of the Bible exists, and there is a True Reality beneath and behind this one, and this life is not the only life, then every good endeavour, even the simplest ones, pursued in response to God's calling, can matter forever.”
― Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Work
Unless there is God. If the God of the Bible exists, and there is a True Reality beneath and behind this one, and this life is not the only life, then every good endeavour, even the simplest ones, pursued in response to God's calling, can matter forever.”
― Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Work
“A job is a vocation only if someone else calls you to do it for them rather than for yourself. And so our work can be a calling only if it is reimagined as a mission of service to something beyond merely our own interests. Thinking of work mainly as a means of self-fulfillment and self-realization slowly crushes a person.”
― Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Plan for the World
― Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Plan for the World
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