Trevor Schexneider

“Are you eager for manifestations of the Spirit? Are you longing for signs and wonders? For supernatural physical healing and deep inner healing? For the ground-shaking word of prophecy and the still small whisper to the soul? For the fiery power of intercession and the society-altering justice that follows? Then channel all your energy into loving those in your local church who you find are the hardest to love.”
― Tyler Staton, The Familiar Stranger: (Re)Introducing the Holy Spirit to Those in Search of an Experiential Spirituality

“The American church, often captured by the values of broader culture, has become a platform for individual performance more than an academy for discipleship to Jesus. And it doesn’t take a social scientist to see that when the church becomes a stage on which a leader performs for an adoring crowd, it destroys both those in the pews and the performer on the stage. The church, stripped of the robust value of formation in community, is leaking its lifeblood.”
― Tyler Staton, The Familiar Stranger: (Re)Introducing the Holy Spirit to Those in Search of an Experiential Spirituality

“I’m saying that living outside of Eden has consequences. Death and sin have infected the very world we live in, and all suffering is a symptom of sin (the world we chose) not God (the good world he created).”
― Tyler Staton, The Familiar Stranger: (Re)Introducing the Holy Spirit to Those in Search of an Experiential Spirituality

“Community is an essential and irreplaceable part of our spiritual formation, but “rootedness” is out of style—in the culture and in the church—limiting the power of the collective to shape us.”
― Tyler Staton, The Familiar Stranger: (Re)Introducing the Holy Spirit to Those in Search of an Experiential Spirituality