Unoffendable: How Just One Change Can Make All of Life Better

by Brant Hansen

In one of those moments when just the right words came, I answered, “I belong to a church that throws birthday parties for whores at 3:30 in the morning.” Harry waited a moment and then almost sneered as he answered, “No you don’t. There’s no church like that. If there was, I’d join it. I’d join a church like that!”2 You know what? I have a new rule: I won’t join a church that doesn’t do that.

simple ministry of presence.

“He did not think that being equal with God was something to be used for his own benefit. But he gave up his place with God and made himself nothing. He was born as a man and became like a servant” (2:6–7 NCV).

Babette’s Feast,

Philip Yancey’s

What’s So Amazing About Grace?

“My yoke is easy and my burden is light” (Matthew 11:30).

The Passion of the Christ,

Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense” (Rom. 9:33 ESV)—

Isaiah (see 8:14; 28:16).

To be young is to be attuned to the adoring, or mocking, crowd that isn’t. To be attuned, and to care, deeply. But Grandma? No caring. Grandma’s imaginary audience done got up and went.

I didn’t walk away from that lunch impressed at how amazingly talented the couple was. Instead, I thought about how God loves us, and how He favors the underdog. He gets the credit.

God continually chooses the least likely to be chosen, the broken and the humble. It’s clearly His modus operandi.

(Prov. 6:6–8 NCV)

“Those who want to save their lives will give up true life, and those who give up their lives for me will have true life” (Matt. 16:25 NCV).

Sokreaksa Himm

The Tears of My Soul)

Choosing to be unoffendable means choosing to be humble.