Nate

“Some of us enter deconstruction willingly. We sat through too many church services that made us queazy with songs-with-words-we-stopped-feeling-good-about-singing, predictable messages, certainty, and focus on belief instead of practice. Something stirred within us, and we started asking the questions swirling around in our head. Others of us were pushed into deconstruction by wounding church experiences. We saw one too many inconsistencies, abuses of power, or crazy-stuff-that-only-insiders-sometimes-see that pushed us over the edge and called everything into question.”
― Gerardo Marti, The Deconstructed Church: Understanding Emerging Christianity

“faith is awakened if at all by the presence of One in whose presence one can do no other than believe.”
― Robert L. Calhoun, Scripture, Creed, Theology: Lectures on the History of Christian Doctrine in the First Centuries

“evangelical and liberal are labels that inhibit rather than illumine the living nature of the gospel.”
― James K. Wellman Jr., Rob Bell and a New American Christianity

“Americans are tired of the religious wars between evangelicals and liberals, but they never tire of Jesus and his way.”
― James K. Wellman Jr., Rob Bell and a New American Christianity