Lauren

“The good news is, every gospel-preaching church is playing for the same kingdom team.”
― Collin Hansen, Rediscover Church: Why the Body of Christ Is Essential

“Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality. There are mass emotions which heal the wound; but they destroy the privilege. In them our separate selves are pooled and we sink back into sub-individuality. But in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. Like the night sky in the Greek poem, I see with a myriad eyes, but it is still I who see. Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I transcend myself; and am never more myself than when I do.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Reading Life: The Joy of Seeing New Worlds Through Others' Eyes

“While the Bible clearly values the work of raising children that women often undertake, it also greatly values women’s gospel ministry outside the home, and gives us positive examples of women working for pay. The ideal wife described in Proverbs 31 makes money from her work outside the home, and some of the first female Christians held paid jobs.”
― Rebecca McLaughlin, The Secular Creed: Engaging Five Contemporary Claims

“Too many churches have dismissed reasonable questions as a slippery slope to atheism. I cannot promise that your questions will be met with grace and good faith where you are, and that saddens me.”
― Ivan Mesa, Before You Lose Your Faith: Deconstructing Doubt in the Church