Sophie Toovey’s Reviews > Need to Know: Empowering Female Leadership and Why It's Essential for the Future of the Church > Status Update

We can see empire ways in our churches when they prioritize institutional growth, wealth, accumulation, and political influence over spiritual depth and discipleship or service to the marginalized... Celebrity pastor leadership and a consumerist approach to faith... Numbers and financial prosperity than... the social transformation of our communities.

I loved Mandy Smith's section especially when she said Jesus 'was more willing to be human than I usually am. How could I be saved by his work for humans if I'm desperately trying to avoid being human?.... God's response begins with I: I send you, I appoint you, I have put my words in your mouth. I am with you to deliver you...I have made you a fortified city.'