Rachel Held Evans Quotes

We millennials have been advertised to our entire lives, and we can tell when somebody is just trying to sell us something. I think church is the last place I want to go to be sold another product.

What millennials really want from the church is not a change in style but a change in substance.

Contrary to popular belief, we (millennials) can't be won back with hipper worship bands, fancy coffee shops, or pastors who wear skinny jeans.

Christianity isn't meant to simply be believed; it's meant to be lived, shared, eaten, spoken, and enacted in the presence of other people.

What makes the Gospel offensive isn’t who it keeps out, but who it lets in.

God's ways are higher than our ways not because he is less compassionate than we are but because he is more compassionate than we can ever imagine.

Faith isn't about having everything figured out ahead of time; faith is about following the quiet voice of God without having everything figured out ahead of time.

My interpretation can only be as inerrant as I am, and that's good to keep in mind.

I’m ready to stop waging war and start washing feet.

We're (millennials) looking for a truer Christianity, a more authentic Christianity.

Church attendance may be dipping, but God can survive the Internet age. After all, He knows a thing or two about resurrection.

What a comfort to know that God is a poet.

No step taken in faith is wasted, not by a God who makes all things new.

As a Christian, my highest calling is not motherhood; my highest calling is to follow Christ.

I have come to regard with some suspicion those who claim that the Bible never troubles them. I can only assume this means they haven’t actually read it.

Perhaps we could push beyond these legalistic gender roles if we spent less time worrying about “acting like men” and “acting like women,” and more time acting like Jesus.

You can't get too far into the Gospels without noticing that Jesus made a pretty lousy apologist.

The woman described in Proverbs 31 is not some ideal that exists out there; she is present in each one of us when we do even the smallest things with valor

We need to stop building our churches around categories and start building them around people.

Church is a moment in time when the kingdom of God draws near, when a meal, a story, a song, an apology, and even a failure id made holy by the presence of Jesus among us and within us.

Imagine if every church became a place where everyone is safe, but no one is comfortable. Image if every church became a place where we told one another the truth. We might just create sanctuary.

When we refer to 'the biblical approach to economics' or the biblical response to politics' or 'biblical womanhood,' we're using the Bible as a weapon disguised as an adjective.

I can't be a Christian on my own. I need a community. I need the church.

We all long for someone to tell us who we are. The great struggle of the Christian life is to take God's name for us, to believe we are beloved and to believe that is enough.

Sometimes you have to be forced away from your work to realize you’ve made too much of it, to remember it doesn’t define you.

Like all who search for truth out of fear, I desperately wanted someone else to tell me exactly what to do.

No coffee shops or fog machines required [for church].

Scripture doesn't speak of people who found God. Scripture speaks of people who walked with God.

When [Jesus] wanted fully to explain what his forthcoming death was all about He didn't give a theory. He didn't even give them a set of Scriptural texts. He gave them a meal.

I don't know why Christians keep fighting over which is better-singleness or marriage-when it seems rather obvious, both from Scripture and from Church history, that both can glorify God.

We cling to the letter because the spirit is so much harder to master.

We are not spared death, but the power of death has been defeated. The grip of sin has been loosed. We are invited to share the victory, to follow the path of God back to life.

We turned an anthem into an assignment, a poem into a job description.

Millennials aren't looking for a hipper Christianity.

The church is the last place we want to be sold another product, the last place we want to be entertained.

Church isn’t about you! It’s about worshipping Jesus. Instead of being consumers, let’s go to church and ask what we can give Jesus because of all he has given us.

Wilhelm Dilthey puts it rather starkly, "Jesus came announcing the Kingdom of God, but what appeared was the church.

Faith is something you take a day at a time, not something you figured out at the start

Scripture doesn’t speak of people who found God. Scripture speaks of people who walked with God.

(About changing faith) At our best, Christians embrace it, leaving enough space within orthodoxy for God to surprise us every now and then.

Caring for the poor, resting on the Sabbath, showing hospitality and keeping the home—these are important things that can lead us to God, but God is not contained in them.

There is not a corner of this world that God has abandoned.

To Jesus, "by faith alone" did not mean "by belief alone." To Jesus, faith was invariably linked to obedience.

Seems to me that for you, evangelicalism is like the boyfriend you broke up with two years ago, but whose Facebook page you still check compulsively.

In the years preceding the Civil War in America, Christian ministers wrote nearly half of all defenses of slavery.

When we refer to 'the biblical approach to economics' or the biblical response to politics' or 'biblical womanhood, ' we're using the Bible as a weapon disguised as an adjective.

If you are looking for verses with which to oppress women, you will find them. If you are looking for verses with which to liberate and honor women, you will find them.

Perhaps being a Christian isn’t about experiencing the kingdom of heaven someday but about experiencing the kingdom of heaven every day.

I don’t respect my husband because he is the man and I am the woman, and it’s my “place” to submit to him. I respect Dan because he is a good person, and because he has made me a better person too.

Those who say that having childlike faith means not asking questions haven't met too many children.