Messy Grace Quotes

“Having the mind-set that you’ve got it together and everyone else is lacking is a fast track to being a grace failure.”
― Caleb Kaltenbach, Messy Grace: How a Pastor with Gay Parents Learned to Love Others Without Sacrificing Conviction

“when you deal with people, you’ll always get messy.”
― Caleb Kaltenbach, Messy Grace: How a Pastor with Gay Parents Learned to Love Others Without Sacrificing Conviction

“Jesus did not die on the cross to create a little country club where we could have weekly gatherings, pat ourselves on the back for our good behavior (while hiding our bad behavior), and meet in clusters during the week but do nothing to reach out to the community. That’s not the kind of church Jesus wants built here on earth.”
― Caleb Kaltenbach, Messy Grace: How a Pastor with Gay Parents Learned to Love Others Without Sacrificing Conviction

“So for those of us who are in Christ, we can be sure that God doesn’t stop loving us. We can’t outrun or outdo the love of God. His love doesn’t depend on our behavior. If God’s love depended on how I act, I would have been out of God’s favor a while ago—and you would have too.”
― Caleb Kaltenbach, Messy Grace: How a Pastor with Gay Parents Learned to Love Others Without Sacrificing Conviction

“We can be accepting but not approving. • We can be loving without applauding. We can be compassionate without commending.”
― Caleb Kaltenbach, Messy Grace: How a Pastor with Gay Parents Learned to Love Others Without Sacrificing Conviction

“Typically, when we wrestle with the tension of grace and truth, we either go all the way to the grace side, where everything is deemed acceptable, or we go all the way to the truth side, where we speak truth and have no love. It’s harder to live in the tension of grace and truth.”
― Caleb Kaltenbach, Messy Grace: How a Pastor with Gay Parents Learned to Love Others Without Sacrificing Conviction