A fear-based culture stifles freedom through legalism, authoritarianism, status, and approval-based relationships. That’s not freedom, and that’s not love. “Perfect love drives out fear.” When fear prevails in a church, there is no real love. Scot & Laura McKnight

16 All of you surely know you are God’s temple and his Spirit lives in you. 1 Corinthians 3:16 CEV https://bible.com/bible/392/1co.3.16.CEV

Equality under God the Father and Christ his Son wipes out any hierarchy of superiority and rank. The term brothers and sisters reinforces the truth that we are “all one in Christ Jesus.”  Scot & Laura McKnight

In a grace-based culture, habits of giving are noticeable because we know we ourselves are the recipients of God’s gift of grace.  Scot & Laura McKnight