Sarah’s Reviews > The Reason for Church: Why the Body of Christ Still Matters in an Age of Anxiety, Division, and Radical Individualism > Status Update
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Good therapists point inward to explore emotional realities to gently bring them out for deeper healing. Good pastors, absolutely facilitate and support healing, but they do so by pointing upward to the greater spiritual reality of Christ. Both empower is to face a broken world with greater resilience, but they do so by deepening our understanding of overlapping distinct realities
— Jun 22, 2026 04:15PM
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Sarah
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He realized part of of his problem was deconstructing without questioning whether certainty was even the standard he should be aiming for
— Jul 13, 2026 02:56PM
Sarah
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Jesus invited us to experience resurrection life by devoting our whole selves to our church as fully as he devoted himself to us. … we can’t claim to be taking up pur cross and following Christ if we aren’t fully devoting ourselves to the bride he died to save.
— Jul 13, 2026 02:49PM
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Asking someone for help is about more than getting answers or gaining knowledge. It jump starts a process that deepen relationship and strengthens bonds with everyone you rely on.
— Jul 13, 2026 01:48PM
Sarah
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For individualist,, you are the sum of your distinctives – your personality, beliefs,, skills, attributes, accomplishments, etc. For collectivist, and you are the sum of your relationship relationships – the communities, groups, and tradition you belong to
— Jul 13, 2026 01:17PM
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We simply underestimate how much using a metaphor of consumption (“Church shopping”) in lieu of scriptures metaphor of marital commitment (“Christ bride”) undermines our ability to treasure God’s priceless possession as he does
— Jul 13, 2026 01:16PM
Sarah
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The moment we say yes to one identity, we limit ourselves and say no to every other option. We’re certainly less free – but what if that’s OK? What if some freedoms are limiting, and some limitations are freeing?
— Jul 13, 2026 01:14PM
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If God rescued us by submitting himself to our most cruel instrument of torture and execution, He can surely redeem and restore us through a vehicle of our hurt and disappointment
— Jul 13, 2026 01:12PM
Sarah
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Manipulating undeserved compassion from others by flaunting challenges that don’t exist or claiming a victimhood greater than we’ve experienced, isn’t just dishonest and potentially dangerous. It makes a mockery of the same gospel that sparked Rome’s compassionate Revolution.
— Jul 07, 2026 03:18PM
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Idea of virtuous victim hood - that victims are somehow automatically morally superior NLT be side they have demonstrated integrity in their suffering but because their perspective is inherently sanctified merely for having suffered a horrible experience
— Jul 07, 2026 12:30PM