Rachel

“If sin is loving something more than God, then idolatry is what happens when we apply creativity to this twisted love. Idolatry is the prideful act of adding imagination to our rebellion in order to create something to take God’s place in our lives. Creativity and idolatry come as a package deal. Idolatry is what happens when image bearers become image makers with creation’s images. It’s why creativity so quickly became idolatry’s handmaiden after the fall. In the chaos of cosmic treason, those made in the likeness of God fashion replacement gods in their own shattered likeness through their own misplaced creativity.”
― Thomas J. Terry, Images and Idols: Creativity for the Christian Life

“Discipleship in Africa has to reckon with the Gospel’s answer to poverty and unemployment. Where there is total dependency on Western churches an indigenous holistic ministry will not flourish”
― Vernon E. Light, Transforming the Church in Africa:: A New Contextually-Relevant Discipleship Model

“The possibility (probability) of making a mistake has the power to paralyze us. Not wanting to ever misstep, we set up strict guidelines and fence upon fence. But most of the time, we are not trying to protect ourselves from bad decisions as much as we are trying to protect ourselves from the punishment we’ve learned comes with missstepping. But if our choices are being driven by fear instead of faith, they are wrong regardless of whether we ever step outside the boundaries or not.8 Instead of being paralyzed by the possibility of making mistakes, we must learn to trust the goodness of God—to trust that even if we do fail, even when we do make a mistake, His goodness will lead us to repentance and bring us safely home.”
― Hannah Anderson, All That's Good: Recovering the Lost Art of Discernment

“The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either—but right through every human heart.” —Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn”
― Hannah Anderson, All That's Good: Recovering the Lost Art of Discernment