8 Quotes by Debra Hirsch

While we were still sinners, Christ died for us,” provide for us Christ’s example. Jesus didn’t wait for us to get our behaviors cleaned up before he embraced us; he embraced us first, with open arms.

Love the sinner, hate your own sin. Tony Campolo.

A woman’s heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her. Maya Angelou8.

God gives each of us a free will that ought not be violated.

When we reduce Christianity to a negative system where fasting becomes more sacred than feasting, law wins out over grace, and correct theology becomes more important than divine encounter, we in effect become the modern-day Pharisees – whose ministry Jesus was set against.

Opening people up to redemptive forward principles will help them move closer to God way more than by telling them how far they fall short. Engaging with people wherever they find themselves or we find them, and then slowly and intentionally pointing them toward the ideals of the kingdom and therefore God, is wonderfully liberating.

The truth is we all entertain a legion of little delusions.

We must lead with our embrace, not our theology. When we lead with our theology, we tend to get all caught up in the “wrongness” of some people’s behavior, and the humanness of the person is easily lost.