Lauren’s Reviews > Contend: Standing Boldly for Biblical Truth While Winning the War Within > Status Update

You don’t pray to inform God of what He already knows. You pray because it aligns your will with His, breaks your dependence on your own strength and positions you to receive only what He can give. A prayer-less church is a powerless church, no matter how full its building. Programming will never be a substitute for prayer.

“Inward contending is confessing doubt before it hardens into unbelief, then holding onto Christ when the night feels endless.”

“Culture is not inherently evil, but it is a cruel shepherd when unchecked by truth.“

“Lukewarm faith is active enough to look alive but compromised enough to be useless. Jesus didn’t call this version of faith adequate, He called it nauseating.”

Woof. Don’t know who needed to read that (may have just been me), but let’s try and be people who don’t forget their first love, Jesus.

“Gen Z was raised in a world of trends and marketing ploys, so they know when they’re being sold to than shepherded.”


Goodness, not even finished with chapter 1 and there’s already some hard hitting content.