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You can't get too far into the Gospels without noticing that Jesus made a pretty lousy apologist.
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As a ring of gold in a swine's snout, so is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion. - PROVERBS 11:22
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Even here, in the dark, God is busy making all things new.
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Martha certainly wasn't the first and she won't be the last to dismiss someone else's encounter with God because it didn't fit the mold.
— Rachel Held Evans
I am convinced that what drives most people away from Christianity is not the cost of discipleship but rather the cost of false fundamentals.
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I think Paul would roll over in his grave if he knew we were turning his letters into torah. - F. F. BRUCE
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Our best answers in defense of Christianity have always been useless clanging symbols unless our lives have inspired the world to ask.
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We cling to the letter because the spirit is so much harder to master.
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Basically my relationship with evangelicalism is like a Taylor Swift song set to repeat.
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My interpretation can only be as inerrant as I am, and that's good to keep in mind.
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No coffee shops or fog machines required [for church].
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As a Christian, my highest calling is not motherhood; my highest calling is to follow Christ.
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Faith," she says, "is a catch-and-release sport. And standing at the altar receiving the bread and wine is the release part.
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People bond more deeply over shared brokenness than they do over shared beliefs.18
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What millennials really want from the church is not a change in style but a change in substance.
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It's strange that Christians so rarely talk about failure when we claim to follow a guy whose three-year ministry was cut short by his crucifixion.
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Philip got out of God's way. He remembered that what makes the gospel offensive isn't who it keeps out, but who it lets in.
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Christianity isn't meant to simply be believed; it's meant to be lived, shared, eaten, spoken, and enacted in the presence of other people.
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Scripture doesn't speak of people who found God. Scripture speaks of people who walked with God.
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But sometimes I think what the church needs most is to recover some of its weird.
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THE FIRST THING THE WORLD KNEW ABOUT CHRISTIANS was that they ate together.
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In fact, it seems that most of the Bible's instructions regarding modesty find their context in warnings about materialism, not sexuality ...
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Sometimes you have to be forced away from your work to realize you've made too much of it, to remember it doesn't define you.
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To Jesus, "by faith alone" did not mean "by belief alone." To Jesus, faith was invariably linked to obedience.
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Doubt is the mechanism by which faith evolves.
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(About changing faith) At our best, Christians embrace it, leaving enough space within orthodoxy for God to surprise us every now and then.
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So why do our churches feel more like country clubs than AA?
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God and the Gay Christian is a game changer. Prepare to be challenged and enlightened, provoked and inspired.
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We're (millennials) looking for a truer Christianity, a more authentic Christianity.
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Church attendance may be dipping, but God can survive the Internet age. After all, He knows a thing or two about resurrection.
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We long for our churches to be safe places to doubt, to ask questions, and to tell the truth, even when it's uncomfortable.
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Millennials aren't looking for a hipper Christianity.
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All in all, the Song of Songs struck me as surprisingly liberating this time around.
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Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some have unwittingly entertained angels (13:2 NKJV).
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We are people who stand totally exposed before evil and death and declare them powerless against love.
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Like all who search for truth out of fear, I desperately wanted someone else to tell me exactly what to do.
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No step taken in faith is wasted, not by a God who makes all things new.
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To be a priest,' writes Barbara Brown Taylor, 'is to know that things are not as they should be and yet to care for them the way they are.
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For the children of Israel, the essence of religion was experiencing God to the fullest during this lifetime, not merely preparing for the next.
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Those who say that having childlike faith means not asking questions haven't met too many children.
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Like a garish conch shell, my cynicism protected me from disappointment, or so I believed, so I expected the worst and smirked when I found it.
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A woman only loses herself when she stops looking, that no role is too confining or too grand for a woman of valor.
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I am writing because sometimes we are closer to the truth in our vulnerability than in our safe certainties,
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The great struggle of the Christian life is to take God's name for us, to believe we are beloved and to believe that is enough.
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Poems were never meant to be forced into commands.
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That's when I realize that if anyone's an oxymoron, it's me. Or maybe it's anyone who claims to follow Jesus.
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Cynicism is a powerful anesthetic we use to numb ourselves to pain, but which also, by its nature, numbs us to truth and joy.
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Contrary to popular belief, we (millennials) can't be won back with hipper worship bands, fancy coffee shops, or pastors who wear skinny jeans.
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God's ways are higher than our ways not because he is less compassionate than we are but because he is more compassionate than we can ever imagine.
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Marriage is a relationship that is made holy, or sacramental, when it reflects the life-giving, self-sacrificing love of Jesus.
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I'm ready to stop waging war and start washing feet.
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What a comfort to know that God is a poet.
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Faith's not about finding the right bush. It's about taking off your shoes.
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Isn't it a little suspicious that the only true religion is the one with which we happened to grow up?
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Some Christians are more offended by the idea of everyone going to heaven than by the idea of everyone going to hell.
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We turned an anthem into an assignment, a poem into a job description.
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