Rachel Held Evans Quotes - Page 3

The church is the last place we want to be sold another product, the last place we want to be entertained.

I don't know why Christians keep fighting over which is better-singleness or marriage-when it seems rather obvious, both from Scripture and from Church history, that both can glorify God.

No coffee shops or fog machines required [for church].

We cling to the letter because the spirit is so much harder to master.

Contrary to popular belief, we (millennials) can't be won back with hipper worship bands, fancy coffee shops, or pastors who wear skinny jeans.

When we refer to 'the biblical approach to economics' or the biblical response to politics' or 'biblical womanhood,' we're using the Bible as a weapon disguised as an adjective.

Like all who search for truth out of fear, I desperately wanted someone else to tell me exactly what to do.

God and the Gay Christian is a game changer. Prepare to be challenged and enlightened, provoked and inspired.

You can't get too far into the Gospels without noticing that Jesus made a pretty lousy apologist.

Isaiah 55 provides an entirely different framework for thinking about God's justice, because it suggests that we have it backward - the mystery lies not in God's unfathomable wrath but in his unfathomable mercy. God's ways are higher than our ways because his capacity to love is infinitely greater than our own. Despite all that we do to alienate ourselves from God, all that we do to insult and disobey, God abundantly pardons again and again.

It is a tragic and agonizing irony that instructions once delivered for the purpose of avoiding needless offense are now invoked in ways that needlessly offend, that words once meant to help draw people to the gospel now repel them.

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.

Ours is indeed a culture that tends to assign value to a woman based on her sex appeal rather than her character, and that’s something we must work to change.

We're (millennials) looking for a truer Christianity, a more authentic Christianity.

Evangelicalism is like my religious mother tongue. I revert to it whenever I’m angry or excited or surrounded by other people who understand what I’m saying. And it’s the language in which I most often hear God’s voice on the rare occasion that it rises above the noise.

Millennials aren't looking for a hipper Christianity.

We turned an anthem into an assignment, a poem into a job description.