Dale Fincher > Quotes

“As long as someone fears their commitment to Christ will be questioned without regular volunteering at their church, we will always have eager volunteers.”
― Dale Fincher, Coffee Shop Conversations: Making the Most of Spiritual Small Talk

“Spirituality is not merely about meditation, morning Bible reading, or church attendance. A truly spiritual person cultivates a life of love. A Christian spiritual person will know the love of Jesus and his point of view.”
― Dale Fincher, Coffee Shop Conversations: Making the Most of Spiritual Small Talk

“Christians struggle with hypocrisy because of our core confusion about what Christianity means. We tend to believe that Christianity is more about being good than about following Jesus.5 If we believe this, when we try to share our beliefs with others, we talk more about attending church, praying a sinner’s prayer, and becoming a good person than about Jesus. The result is that we become known for morality, not for our love of Jesus.”
― Dale Fincher, Coffee Shop Conversations: Making the Most of Spiritual Small Talk

“According to a recent Barna survey, a large majority of evangelical Christians and church leaders measure their own spiritual maturity by rule keeping, rather than by the fruit of the Spirit.28”
― Dale Fincher, Coffee Shop Conversations: Making the Most of Spiritual Small Talk

“Unless we are sharing what we have experienced, we run the risk of spreading propaganda—things that make for great PR, but don’t have evidence to back them up. If we have never experienced Jesus comforting us during a time of intense grief, how can we assure a friend that Jesus can help them? Our claims will ring false unless we speak out of our experiences with our God”
― Dale Fincher, Coffee Shop Conversations: Making the Most of Spiritual Small Talk

“Introducing Jesus as our light in this dark world gives our friends something to ponder, allowing a guarded heart to give Jesus another look and freeing people to see Jesus as a promise instead of a threat.”
― Dale Fincher, Coffee Shop Conversations: Making the Most of Spiritual Small Talk

“If we refuse to update our knowledge, then we have refused to know and thereby refused to love.”
― Dale Fincher, Opening the Stable Door: An Advent Reader

“When his culture considered women irrational and the private property of men, Jesus educated women and counted them among his closest friends.c When the religious laws abused people, Jesus looked behind the law at God’s intention to give life and health.d”
― Dale Fincher, Coffee Shop Conversations: Making the Most of Spiritual Small Talk

“If you tend to treat religion as a private affair, something to do on your days off, something too private for the marketplace or political discussion, you may actually be dabbling with secularism.”
― Dale Fincher, Coffee Shop Conversations: Making the Most of Spiritual Small Talk

“If we believe abortion damages mother, father, and child, we may let the Bible inform us, but secularists will insist we do the harder work of finding reasons and evidence that appeal even to a nonreligious person.”
― Dale Fincher, Coffee Shop Conversations: Making the Most of Spiritual Small Talk