“We meet a gay guy or a couple living together, and we think we have the obligation and right to warn them what God thinks about their sexuality on our first meeting. As if their sex life is the first thing on God’s agenda.
It’s not.
Love is. Grace is. Mercy is. Jesus is.”
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““I just don’t want to be the guy that shows up in heaven and goes, “Really? You are this beautiful, this wonderful, this extravagant, this extraordinary, and I spent the days of my life on earth consumed with bills and social status trying to please men?“”— Judah Smith,
Grace is more..
“Grace is not an idea.
It’s not a concept.
It’s not a principle.
Grace is more a person than a principle.The reason grace has been abused is because we’ve left it merely as a principle and as long as grace is a concept, a principle, an idea, it’s easily abused and misused. But when you look into the eyes of Grace and you meet Grace and when you embrace Grace and you see the nail prints in Grace’s hands and you see the fire in His eyes and His hair like wool and you feel His love, you feel His relentless love for you that never ends and never stops; I’m telling you, it will not motivate you to sin. It will motivate you to righteousness.”
- Judah Smith
November Study Challenge Day 7 // Book you’re currently reading/ studying
So basically, I had a bit of a break down and my pastor essentially prescribed this book, and banned me from doing anything on Monday nights so I rest, because rest is important and I’m so terrible at it. Anyway, this book is genuinely so relevant to me right now it physically makes me cringe
“Christianity is not about not swearing; it’s not about not having impure thoughts; really, it’s not about “not” at all. Christianity is about Jesus.”— Judah Smith
“A pastor friend of mine once asked me, “Judah, do you know any pimps?” “Um, no?” I was a bit confused about where this conversation was going. “Do you know any drug dealers?” “No.” “Any crackheads?” “I don’t think so.” “Any exotic dancers?” “No!” “How about any prostitutes?” “Of course not!” I was a bit indignant now, as if he was trying to indict me somehow. He got a sad look on his face. “Neither do I,” he said. “I think that’s part of the problem.”—
Judah Smith, Jesus Is ____.
Jesus said over and over again that He came for the broken, the bad, the addicted, the bound, the deceived, the lost, the hurting. He doesn’t reject you. He listens. He gets it.
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“Isn’t it strange that we talk least about the things we think about most?”— Charles Lindbergh (via quotemadness)
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pray for ur parents. pray for their emotional and mental well-being. they like to act strong for our sake.
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“There’s a Japanese phrase that I like: koi no yokan. It doesn’t mean love at first sight. It’s closer to love at second sight. It’s the feeling when you meet someone that you’re going to fall in love with them. Maybe you don’t love them right away, but it’s inevitable that you will.”— Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star
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“Job never saw why he suffered, but he saw God, and that was enough.”— Timothy Keller (via mykingforeverjesuschrist)
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“Sometimes we don’t get second chances. Sometimes things just end.”— Colleen Hoover, Confess
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“A relationship with Jesus should absolutely change everything in your life: your attitude, habits, words, deeds, the way you view the world, the way you view yourself, the way you view others. It should change what you value and what you pursue; it should change you to your very core.”— Danny Saavedra
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Anonymous asked: Thoughts/stance on homosexuality? This isn’t meant to be a gotcha question
I knew this question would come to me after posting about queer eye.
I really cry at the fact that people of kinds are unloved and rejected by many people of the church of Jesus.
God has specially placed an empathy, a compassion on boys and men especially who don’t fit the mold of masculinity or whatever is portrayed in society as normal. Because I myself don’t fit that, I love cooking, baking and am more feminine than masculine to be honest. I love Beyoncé haaha. I was raised by my Mum, so naturally that happens.
I want to welcome them into my home and make food for them, I want to assure them that they are so loved and so welcome by Jesus AND HIS PEOPLE.
That’s the thing I am frustrated about. They see the love of Jesus, yet they see the hatred and rejection of the church.
We all have two jobs, as commissioned by Jesus. LOVE God & one another as ourself and the second is to make disciples!
These two cannot be fulfilled if you stand in any position of judgment. Our judgment as HUMAN beings is LOVED by our creator and saviour who gave everything for us. Why should our personal judgment of others be hatred or rejection.
I’ve felt oppressed and unwelcome in certain people groups because of my race, because of the way I talk, because I don’t play sports. I will never want to make anyone else feel alienated.Let’s do a better job at doing what we were created to do: LOVE!
Not just superficially or from afar, but up close, and in our quarters. We are uncomfortable when people are different. BUT God in his mercy and love welcomed us all in when we were ENEMIES.
Spending some time with 1 Corinthians 13 these past few days. The way Love is defined always leaves me in awe - there is so much we have yet to learn. This Love that doesn’t look like me, that moves and isn’t rigid, I want to pursue it, never lose sight of it. I want my words and thoughts and actions to be aligned with Love, like partners in a dance following each other’s every step. But You’re the one leading, because I know I can’t love fully on my own. And that’s the point. To learn to Love hand in hand with You.
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