A short list of questions we Christians need to be better about asking ourselves regarding our beliefs: How might I be wrong? How might the passion of my beliefs regarding an issue be causing me to ignore errors about my beliefs themselves? Do my beliefs about social...
Just because someone plays Beethoven badly doesn't mean Beethoven was a bad composer. Just because someone lives the Christian life poorly doesn't mean that Jesus isn't worth following. God doesn't ask you to be like Christians. He asks you to be like Jesus Christ....
Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too.
He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.--------------------------------------------------------Gender-inclusive, paraphrased version: Those who know all the answers have not been asked all the questions.
A young minister asked me today for my philosophy of ministry in a nutshell. Before I could even think, this came out of my mouth: “If love can’t win it, it can’t be won; if love can’t do it, it can’t be done; in the end, love is the only answer.”
The first step for church leaders (one meant to represent God) to regain trust by those damaged by the church is not to ask for itbut to genuinely ask them questions about their experience. “I want to know what this has done to you, how it affects you . . .” is where...
Every day in a hundred small ways our children ask, "Do you see me? Do you hear me? Do I matter?" Their behavior often reflects our response.
View your life with kindsight. Stop beating yourself up about things from the past. Instead of slapping your forehead and asking "What was I thinking?" breathe and ask yourself the kinder question, "What was I learning?"
Ask anyone what she means when she says, ‘God,’ and chances are you will learn a lot more about that person than you will learn about God.
In the gospels, Jesus is asked 187 questions. He answers (maybe) 8 of them. He himself asks 387. Maybe faith isn't about certainty, but learning to ask--and sit in the complexity of--good questions.