Pharisectomy Quotes

“Righteousness is not the reward of living rightly. It’s the unmerited gift that irresistibly results in right living (Titus 3:5).”
― Peter Haas, Pharisectomy: How to Joyfully Remove Your Inner Pharisee and Other Religiously Transmitted Diseases

“In some ways, pastoring a church is like competing in an extreme sport where you run through a dense pack of grizzly bears every Sunday. On one hand, it’s a rush. On the other hand, you quickly become aware of just how hostile a church environment can be.”
― Peter Haas, Pharisectomy: How to Joyfully Remove Your Inner Pharisee and Other Religiously Transmitted Diseases

“Although around 43 percent of Americans claim to go to church, only about 17 to 20.4 percent actually went to church last weekend.”
― Peter Haas, Pharisectomy: How to Joyfully Remove Your Inner Pharisee and Other Religiously Transmitted Diseases

“Statistically, you can take two people, give them the same quantity of God’s Word, and the one with the most Christian friends will be the one who’s most likely to apply it. So the real question we need to ask ourselves is this, “Are we intimately connected with other people in the body of Christ?” If not, it doesn’t matter how many sermons or worship experiences you ingest. You have very low odds of actually changing.”
― Peter Haas, Pharisectomy: How to Joyfully Remove Your Inner Pharisee and Other Religiously Transmitted Diseases

“The Bible isn’t a list of requirements; rather, it’s a list of results after experiencing God’s love. Following God isn’t an action but a reaction. And if you have to painstakingly motivate yourself or others to serve God “because it’s the right thing to do,” you’ve already missed the very foundations of biblical Christianity.”
― Peter Haas, Pharisectomy: How to Joyfully Remove Your Inner Pharisee and Other Religiously Transmitted Diseases

“Obedience is now just one of the fun ways we say thanks to Him while He drenches us with favor; it naturally flows from our lives. Christianity is not a process in which we earn love; it’s a process in which we reflect love.”
― Peter Haas, Pharisectomy: How to Joyfully Remove Your Inner Pharisee and Other Religiously Transmitted Diseases

“We need to become painfully aware of how we’re obscuring God from those who need to connect with Him the most: the lost.”
― Peter Haas, Pharisectomy: How to Joyfully Remove Your Inner Pharisee and Other Religiously Transmitted Diseases

“a reaction to God’s kindness, not an action to earn it.”
― Peter Haas, Pharisectomy: How to Joyfully Remove Your Inner Pharisee and Other Religiously Transmitted Diseases

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― Peter Haas, Pharisectomy: How to Joyfully Remove Your Inner Pharisee and Other Religiously Transmitted Diseases