Brian D. McLaren Quotes about Church

It's not about the church meeting your needs; it's about joining the mission of God's people to meet the world's needs.

It's not about the church meeting your needs; it's about joining the mission of God's people to meet the world's needs.

People, Church, Needs

When any sector of the Church stops learning, God simply overflows the structures that are in the way and works outside them with those willing to learn.

Brian D. McLaren

Work Out, Church, Way

The scarily brilliant Romantic poet and visionary William Blake dared to say what many of us have perhaps thought but kept to ourselves: “A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there’s more conversation.

Brian D. McLaren

Church, Visionaries, Brilliant

The church latched on to that old doctrine of original sin like a dog to a stick, and before you knew it, the whole gospel got twisted around it. Instead of being God’s big message of saving love for the whole world, the gospel became a little bit of secret information on how to solve the pesky legal problem of original sin.

Brian D. McLaren

Dog, Secret, Church

Brian D. McLaren (2012). “The Last Word and the Word after That: A Tale of Faith, Doubt, and a New Kind of Christianity”, p.186, John Wiley & Sons

The Church has little idea how unorthodox it is at any given moment. If a church can't yet be perfectly orthodox, it can, with the Holy Spirit's help and by the grace of God, be perpetually reformable.

Brian D. McLaren

Ideas, Grace, Church

Brian D. McLaren (2005). “A Generous Orthodoxy: Why I Am a Missional, Evangelical, Post/Protestant, Liberal/conservative, Mystical/poetic, Biblical, Charismatic/contemplative, Fundamentalist/Calvinist, Anabaptist/Anglican, Methodist, Catholic, Green, Incarnational, Depressed-yet-hopeful, Emergent, Unfinished Christian”, p.34, Zondervan

Brian D. McLaren Quotes about Church

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