For the Love: Fighting for Grace in a World of Impossible Standards

by Jen Hatmaker

If it isn’t also true for a poor single Christian mom in Haiti, it isn’t true. Theology is either true everywhere or it isn’t true anywhere. This

Goodness, desired and implemented, is demonstrated by Christians wherever they’ve been set free. Good reader,

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking,

don’t know your feelings about church, but what if you freed up your pastors to be ordinary men and women, your church to be a simple family, and your life to be for loving God and people? I don’t

Love God, love people. Act justly, love mercy, walk humbly. Treat people as you want to be treated. If you want to be great, be a servant. It really is simple—a pure kingdom lived in ordinary ways by ordinary people. Let’s unshackle each other’s hands a bit. Our pastors and churches teach and gather us, challenge and launch us, but no church supersedes you living your beautiful, valuable life on mission. You fulfill an extraordinary role through ordinary means, and no leader or church can do this for you. There is no whole without the pieces.

All sorts of hooligans fill the sanctuaries:

Here is the truth: If we are inhibiting others from finding Jesus, this constitutes a full-blown crisis.