“The Fruit of the Spirit is success: a rapidly growing church, everyone thinking you’re special, God answering all your prayers, all your sermons being life-changing.”

– not Galatians 5:22-23

“In ministry, there is so much experience of loss,
so much unprocessed grief,
and when you combine that with the unhealthy pace of entrepreneurs,
it is only a matter of time until everything explodes.”