How Do We Stay Hopeful?

conflict hope new futures spirituality Apr 17, 2025
 

If we're going to be honest about what's not okay in the Church today, how do we stay hopeful?

Here, Clara King shares what keeps her hopeful even while dealing with high-conflict churches, dying denominations, and witnessing the Church at its most broken and inadequate.

Yet our God is a God of resurrection, of light shining persistently in the midst of dark and difficult times.

  • Where is God glimmering in the difficult times of leadership for you?
  • When have you witnessed resurrection, possibility, or hope in the most unexpected situations?
  • In these particularly difficult times in the world right now, are there ways that the stories in Scripture seem more vibrant? What hope is there for us in that?