Showing posts with label discipleship. Show all posts
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Friday, August 9, 2013

Church, Forgiveness, Grief, and Mourning

Author Brené Brown has some really good things to say about what church should be and, at its best is, about: being with people through pain and loss:



Her point is that the church exists to help people through their lives, not to give people an escape from their lives. Jesus' birth, life, death, and resurrection--what we call his incarnation--is all about triumphing over the world by moving through the world. Worth thinking about.