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Her biggest issue? Attitude. She would not tolerate a negative attitude, pouting or quitting. She did not put up with it. No matter what happened, she expected us to stay positive, “look happy” (even if we weren’t), and to never, ever quit.
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Rachel Held Evans
“In the company of these friends, questions and doubts were met with sympathy, not fear. No one felt the need to correct or understand or approve. We just listened, and it was sacred.”
Rachel Held Evans, Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church

Rachel Held Evans
“But the modern-day church doesn’t like to wander or wait. The modern-day church likes results. Convinced the gospel is a product we’ve got to sell to an increasingly shrinking market, we like our people to function as walking advertisements: happy, put-together, finished—proof that this Jesus stuff WORKS! At its best, such a culture generates pews of Stepford Wife–style robots with painted smiles and programmed moves. At its worst, it creates environments where abuse and corruption get covered up to protect reputations and preserve image. “The world is watching,” Christians like to say, “so let’s be on our best behavior and quickly hide the mess. Let’s throw up some before-and-after shots and roll that flashy footage of our miracle product blanching out every sign of dirt, hiding every sign of disease.” But if the world is watching, we might as well tell the truth. And the truth is, the church doesn’t offer a cure. It doesn’t offer a quick fix. The church offers death and resurrection. The church offers the messy, inconvenient, gut-wrenching, never-ending work of healing and reconciliation. The church offers grace. Anything else we try to peddle is snake oil. It’s not the real thing.”
Rachel Held Evans, Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church

Rachel Held Evans
“They reminded me that 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. They reminded me that, try as I may, I can’t be a Christian on my own. I need a community. I need the church.”
Rachel Held Evans, Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church

Rachel Held Evans
“I explained that when our gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender friends aren’t welcome at the table, then we don’t feel welcome either, and that not every young adult gets married or has children, so we need to stop building our churches around categories and start building them around people.”
Rachel Held Evans, Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church

Rachel Held Evans
“The church is God saying: 'I'm throwing a banquet, and all these mismatched, messed-up people are invited. Here, have some wine.”
Rachel Held Evans, Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church

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