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Imagine if every church became a place where everyone is safe, but no one is comfortable. Image if every church became a place where we told one another the truth. We might just create sanctuary.

Imagine if every church became a place where everyone is safe, but no one is comfortable. Image if every church became a place where we told one another the truth. We might just create sanctuary.

Rachel Held Evans
Church, Sanctuary, Safe

But if the world is watching, we might as well tell the truth. And the truth is, the church doesn't offer a cure. It doesn't offer a quick fix. The church offers death and resurrection. The church offers the messy, inconvenient, gut-wrenching, never-ending work of healing and reconciliation.

Rachel Held Evans
Healing, Church, Might
Rachel Held Evans (2015). “Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church”, p.209, Thomas Nelson Inc

I can't be a Christian on my own. I need a community. I need the church.

Rachel Held Evans
Christian, Community, Church
Rachel Held Evans (2015). “Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church”, p.16, Thomas Nelson Inc

We millennials have been advertised to our entire lives, and we can tell when somebody is just trying to sell us something. I think church is the last place I want to go to be sold another product.

Rachel Held Evans
Thinking, Trying, Church

What millennials really want from the church is not a change in style but a change in substance.

Rachel Held Evans
Style, Church, Millennials
"Why millennials are leaving the church" by Rachel Held Evans, religion.blogs.cnn.com. July 27, 2013.

We need to stop building our churches around categories and start building them around people.

Rachel Held Evans
People, Church, Needs
Rachel Held Evans (2015). “Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church”, p.14, Thomas Nelson Inc

Church attendance may be dipping, but God can survive the Internet age. After all, He knows a thing or two about resurrection.

Rachel Held Evans
Two, Church, Age

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

Rachel Held Evans
Church, Want, Lasts
Rachel Held Evans (2015). “Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church”, p.14, Thomas Nelson Inc

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.

Rachel Held Evans
Christian, Fighting, Church

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

Rachel Held Evans
Coffee, Fog, Church

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