Nate

“Whenever anything gets hyper-established, it loses something.”
― Gerardo Marti, The Deconstructed Church: Understanding Emerging Christianity

“Christianity has its roots in the profound sense of exile.”
― Philip H. Pfatteicher, Journey into the Heart of God: Living the Liturgical Year

“If God is given to be misunderstood then he is also given to be re-understood.”
― Andrew Davison, For the Parish: A Critique of Fresh Expressions

“As our respondents show when discussing these tensions, the failure of the church to adapt to new cultural realities is a fundamental issue driving the dechurched movement. In short, what worked for churches to attract and keep people in the 1980s or 1990s can be the same practices that drive people away in the 2000s.”
― Josh Packard, Church Refugees: Sociologists reveal why people are DONE with church but not their faith