The Deconstructed Church Quotes

“Some of us enter deconstruction willingly. We sat through too many church services that made us queazy with songs-with-words-we-stopped-feeling-good-about-singing, predictable messages, certainty, and focus on belief instead of practice. Something stirred within us, and we started asking the questions swirling around in our head. Others of us were pushed into deconstruction by wounding church experiences. We saw one too many inconsistencies, abuses of power, or crazy-stuff-that-only-insiders-sometimes-see that pushed us over the edge and called everything into question.”
― Gerardo Marti, The Deconstructed Church: Understanding Emerging Christianity

“Whenever anything gets hyper-established, it loses something.”
― Gerardo Marti, The Deconstructed Church: Understanding Emerging Christianity

“Emerging Christians want others to see different ways of being a Christian, and their identities are bound up in modeling those different ways.”
― Gerardo Marti, The Deconstructed Church: Understanding Emerging Christianity