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“More of us need to cultivate this ability to say no without concocting excuses, especially when such excuses are less than honest. Saying no without excuse is part of what it means to speak truth in love to one another.”
— Mar 25, 2026 04:55PM
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Shanti Israni
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“Our experience of the church is meant to be an experience of diversity and variety joined together under the lordship of Jesus. If your only experience of the church is of a group of people just like you—your age, your marital status, your income bracket, your race, your nationality—you have not yet experienced the rich variety of God as it is expressed in the body of Christ.”
— Mar 25, 2026 05:33PM
Shanti Israni
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“Our experience of the body of Christ is incomplete if we have fellowship only with people who are like ourselves.”
— Mar 25, 2026 05:20PM
Shanti Israni
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“Ironically, even as the church has been elevating the nuclear family, we have been cooperating with our culture in weakening the connections of the extended family and other forms of community.”
— Mar 25, 2026 05:18PM
