"...many have forgotten that the gospel is about God in the first place. When the Christian life has become a practice in doing everything else but making Jesus known, what will we expect of our gospel presentations? They will naturally result in the telling of something empty and void of power, more moral than anything, insufficient to make men and women believe that they can be saved by and for some other means than Jesus. Getting back to the foundational call of making God the center of our churches, our conversations, our doctrines, and our lives will ensure that he won't be left out of our evangelism. Surely, no man who has made God small in his own life will have the Godward focus to make him big in ministry to others. Christ has simply come to make us right with God. And in making us right with God, he is satisfying us in God. Our sexuality is not our soul. Marriage is not heaven. And singleness is not hell" (Chapter 17).
"God's image was what womanhood was born out of, not the 1950s Polaroids of white women baking cookies while talking loud enough to be heard and quiet enough to not call attention to their intillect. Neither that, nor the pictures of women, jaded and committed to speaking at men like they were negligent children or dogs you don't trust without a leash. The self-proclaimed liberated women was far beyond the picture God cared for me to become. The temple being used rightly was important to Jesus, and I felt as if there was a shared passion for my womanhood. How I moved about the world as a woman mattered to God" (Chapter 11).
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