Brian Eshleman

“God doesn’t love some future version of us; he loves us—not because we earned it, but because Jesus earned it for us.”
― Jim Davis, The Great Dechurching: Who’s Leaving, Why Are They Going, and What Will It Take to Bring Them Back?

“The surf that distresses the ordinary swimmer produces in the surf-rider the super-joy of going clean through it. Apply that to our own circumstances, these very things-tribulation, distress, persecution, produce in us the super-joy; they are not things to fight. We are more than conquerors through Him in al these things, not in spite of them, but in the midst of them. The saint never knows the joy of the Lord in spite of tribulation, but because of it”
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest: Classic Language

“For the first time in the eight decades that Gallup has tracked American religious membership, more adults in the United States do not attend church than attend church.”
― Jim Davis, The Great Dechurching: Who’s Leaving, Why Are They Going, and What Will It Take to Bring Them Back?

“One pastor we know in a highly mobile city often says his job feels like he is “hugging a parade as it is going by him.”
― Jim Davis, The Great Dechurching: Who’s Leaving, Why Are They Going, and What Will It Take to Bring Them Back?