Suzie

“Conflict reveals the true character of a leader.”
― Jim Van Yperen, Making Peace: A Guide to Overcoming Church Conflict

“In a culture where busyness is a fetish and stillness is laziness, rest is sloth. But without rest, we miss the rest of God: the rest he invites us to enter more fully so that we might know him more deeply. “Be still, and know that I am God.” Some knowing is never pursued, only received. And for that, you need to be still. Sabbath is both a day and an attitude to nurture such stillness. It is both time on a calendar and a disposition of the heart. It is a day we enter, but just as much a way we see. Sabbath imparts the rest of God—actual physical, mental, spiritual rest, but also the rest of God— the things of God’s nature and presence we miss in our busyness.”
― Mark Buchanan, The Rest of God: Restoring Your Soul by Restoring Sabbath

“The heart cannot love what the mind does not know.”
― Jen Wilkin, Women of the Word: How to Study the Bible with Both Our Hearts and Our Minds

“When church leaders and members are willing to honestly accept, openly confess, and intentionally address the underlying causes of church conflict, God will repair and restore the church.”
― Jim Van Yperen, Making Peace: A Guide to Overcoming Church Conflict