Lisa Johnson

“Nothing surpasses the need to live out the redemptive spirit of Scripture. Therein lies its heart. Therein one discovers the essence of good application.
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― William J. Webb, Slaves, Women & Homosexuals: Exploring the Hermeneutics of Cultural Analysis

“Then there’s the reality that holiness is plain hard work, and we’re often lazy. We like our sins, and dying to them is painful. Almost everything is easier than growing in godliness. So we try and fail, try and fail, and then give up. It’s easier to sign a petition protesting man’s inhumanity to man than to love your neighbor as yourself. It’s one thing to graduate from college ready to change the world. It’s another to be resolute in praying”
― Kevin DeYoung, The Hole in Our Holiness: Filling the Gap between Gospel Passion and the Pursuit of Godliness

“Identity always precedes behavior. What you need is someone to come alongside you and help you remember who you are and to whom you belong.”
― Dave Ferguson, Finding Your Way Back to God: Five Awakenings to Your New Life

“Legitimate peripheral participation means that adolescents make real contributions to our shared life in God, even while they are still figuring out how to be part of the community of faith. As teenagers become more proficient in the church’s language and practices, they become more central to the life of the congregation, and contribute more fully to Christ’s mission—until they suddenly discover that they are in a position to help lead in that mission, to bring newcomers on board, and to create the community anew.”
― Kenda Creasy Dean, Almost Christian : What the Faith of Our Teenagers is Telling the American Church