Gospel Saturated

The last few years have been an unsettling and disruptive time for millions of people around the globe. The impact of COVID-19 on our ordinary routines and daily habits has been, in many cases, bewildering.

It has also brought to light just how busy and frantic normal actually was and, for many Christians, the welcome relief at the inability to ‘go to church’ has uncovered a hidden reality; one we perhaps don't talk enough about: the reality of church burnout.

https://www.carrielloydshaw.com/avoiding-church-burnout/

The New Testament writers, particularly the Apostle Paul, encouraged believers to think of the church as a woman, a mighty woman of valour, whose very life and existence were framed by the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Echoing the story of creation, it is through this man’s death and sacrifice, she is created and at his resurrection, she becomes a living creature.

https://www.carrielloydshaw.com/the-church-a-woman-of-valour/

Paul the Apostle takes the issue the church at Galatia is dealing with very seriously. When a life of grace and rest is replaced with a life of imposed works, spirituality has morphed into a faith that's become toxic.

Toxic faith is a destructive and dangerous relationship with a religious system, not with God, that allows this system to control a person’s life in the name of God. It is a system where another gospel is preached – not one of freedom and liberty and acceptance through grace, but one, in reality, of enslavement to rituals and rules.

https://www.carrielloydshaw.com/toxic-faith/