Have you ever considered the Bible stories we teach to be “children’s stories”? I didn’t grow up in church, but when I accepted Christ as a teenager, I quickly began serving in children’s church. It became a really great way for me to learn the stories in the Bible because I was learning about who God is alongside these kids. I was shocked to learn that the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah was in our children’s curriculum—to me, that seemed like more of a source of nightmare

As we aim to promote unity, we are not always called to say what is “nice,” but rather, to speak the truth in love to one another.

Many of us still fight this battle today—so how might we reject the lies and false promises of perfectionism?