Tag: Rebecca McLaughlin

The Outreach Resources of the Year honors the past year’s best books that emphasize outreach-oriented ideas that churches and organizations of all sizes can use. In this section you will discover valuable tools that belong in your library of resources to further the kingdom of God. You will reach for them time and again as they enhance your effectiveness in ministry through the years.

One of the most disorienting things for many Christians in the West today is finding that they’re on the moral low ground in the eyes of their non-Christian friends and neighbors.

If we are going to present a compelling alternative to non-Christian sexual ethics today, we need to recover a New Testament understanding of brotherly and sisterly love. Everywhere I go, I meet brothers and sisters in Christ who are trusting that Jesus’ love is better than any human love, leaving same-sex sexual relationships to follow Jesus. If someone leaves a gay relationship to enter the church, they should find more love and not less.

My guess is that for most of us, this manifesto of Jesus’s kingship sounds attractive.

“Jesus chose the cross so that the curtain could be torn and we could live eternally with him.”

“There are a lot of things that look like roadblocks to faith, but if you look more closely, they become signposts to Jesus.”

“We can’t actually share the gospel while holding onto our pride. Too often we think we’re defending Jesus when in fact we’re defending ourselves.”

Excerpted From '10 Questions Every Teen Should Ask (and Answer) About Christianity' (Crossway)