“Americans are tired of the religious wars between evangelicals and liberals, but they never tire of Jesus and his way.”
― Rob Bell and a New American Christianity
― Rob Bell and a New American Christianity
“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.”
― The Deconstructed Church: Understanding Emerging Christianity
― The Deconstructed Church: Understanding Emerging Christianity
“evangelical and liberal are labels that inhibit rather than illumine the living nature of the gospel.”
― Rob Bell and a New American Christianity
― Rob Bell and a New American Christianity
“We may assume it is God we care for, but it may be our own ego we are concerned with. To examine our religious existence is, therefore, a task to be performed constantly.”
― God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism
― God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism
“faith is awakened if at all by the presence of One in whose presence one can do no other than believe.”
― Scripture, Creed, Theology: Lectures on the History of Christian Doctrine in the First Centuries
― Scripture, Creed, Theology: Lectures on the History of Christian Doctrine in the First Centuries
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