Jake Colsen > Quotes

“The fact that you don't feel Him [God] holding you doesn't change the fact that He still is.”
― Wayne Jacobsen and Dave Coleman

“Because people get together, sit in a room, sing some songs and share scripture, they think they've experienced the life of the church. If that's all been real, they may have. More times than not, however, it's just a routine they feel good about having accomplished, but in the end they haven't really shared his life at all. That's why I like pulling commitment off of people. You find out where they really are on the inside and that's good for you and for them.”
― Wayne Jacobsen and Dave Coleman, So you don't want to to go church anymore

“You can't foster a relationship with someone who is always checking your performance to make sure it's adequate enough to merit his friendship.”
― Jake Colsen, So You Don't Want to Go to Church Anymore: An Unexpected Journey

“One of the most significant lessons Jesus taught his disciples was to stop looking for God's life in the regimen of rituals and rules. He came not to refurbish religion, but to offer them a relationship.”
― Jake Colsen, So You Don't Want to Go to Church Anymore: An Unexpected Journey

“The life of faith is a struggle enough in a broken world without us complicating it for other believers.”
― Jake Colsen, So You Don't Want to Go to Church Anymore: An Unexpected Journey

“No institutional arrangement will ever contain all that they church is. Don't look for it institutionally; look for it relationally. Certainly the New Testament talks about the priorities of that church -- Jesus as its sole head and focus, daily encouragement among believers, plural and lateral leadership, open participation, and an environment of freedom so people can grow in him.”
― Wayne Jacobsen and Dave Coleman

“But that's not how God views the cross, Jake. His wrath wasn't an expression of the punishment sin deserves; it was the antidote for sin and shame. The purpose of the cross, as Paul wrote of it, was for God to make his Son to become sin itself so that he could condemn sin in the likeness of human flesh and purge it from the race. His plan was not just to provide a way to forgive sin, but to destroy it so that we might live free.”
― Wayne Jacobsen and Dave Coleman

“The ones who win usually don't need the prize.”
― Jake Colsen, So You Don't Want to Go to Church Anymore: An Unexpected Journey

“Be real with Father and resist the urges to crawl back into your shell and silently endure lifelessness.”
― Jake Colsen, So You Don't Want to Go to Church Anymore: An Unexpected Journey