Rachel Held Evans Quotes About Church

Quotes about: Church

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Walking with someone through grief, or through the process of reconciliation, requires patience, presence, and a willingness to wander, to take the scenic route. But the modern-day church doesn't like to wander or wait. The modern-day church likes results. Convinced the gospel is a product we've got to sell to an increasingly shrinking market, we like our people to function as walking advertisements: happy, put-together, finished - proof that this Jesus stuff WORKS!

  Rachel Held Evans

  Jesus, Grief, People

  Rachel Held Evans (2015). “Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church”, p.208, Thomas Nelson Inc

• 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 is a moment in time when the kingdom of God draws near, when a meal, a story, a song, an apology, and even a failure id made holy by the presence of Jesus among us and within us.

  Rachel Held Evans

  Song, Jesus, Apology

• 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.

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

  Rachel Held Evans

  Coffee, Fog, Church

• 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

• 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

• 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

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