Nadia Bolz-Weber Quote
Repentance in Greek means something much closer to thinking differently afterward than it does changing your cheating ways. Of course repentance can look like a prostitute becoming a librarian, but it can also look like a prostitute simply saying, OK, I'm a sex worker and I don't know how to change that, but I can come here and receive bread and wine and I can hold onto the love of God without being deemed worthy of it by anyone but God.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
Repentance in Greek means something much closer to thinking differently afterward than it does changing your cheating ways. Of course repentance can look like a prostitute becoming a librarian, but it can also look like a prostitute simply saying, OK, I'm a sex worker and I don't know how to change that, but I can come here and receive bread and wine and I can hold onto the love of God without being deemed worthy of it by anyone but God.
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About Nadia Bolz-Weber
Bolz-Weber is known for her unusual approach to reaching others through her church. She has produced work in the church that scholar and writer Diana Butler Bass considers part of "a new Reformation".