This Changes Everything Quotes

“If you're a Jesus follower, it means you're there to love your church, to serve it, to worship with it, and to be accountable to it.... Age doesn't divide. We are all the church.”
― Jaquelle Crowe, This Changes Everything: How the Gospel Transforms the Teen Years

“The biggest, most crucial, most significant thing I want you to know is that my life's task is to follow Jesus.”
― Jaquelle Crowe, This Changes Everything: How the Gospel Transforms the Teen Years

“We're not like the other teenagers around us. We don't conform to stereotypes. We've actually become weird in the the eyes of our culture. Teen magazines were not written for us. Modern pop music is not composed for us. The latest TV lineup is not scripted for us. We're not your average teenagers anymore.
What are we? We are free. Following Jesus means we don't have to live the way our culture tells us to.”
― Jaquelle Crowe, This Changes Everything: How the Gospel Transforms the Teen Years

“Jesus was worth it. Jesus was better than safety. Jesus was better than health. Jesus was better than food. Jesus was better than friends... Jesus was so much better than everything.”
― Jaquelle Crowe, This Changes Everything: How the Gospel Transforms the Teen Years

“Our youth is by God's grace, in God's hands, and for God's fame.”
― Jaquelle Crowe, This Changes Everything: How the Gospel Transforms the Teen Years

“While I love to find sin in others, I tend to minimize my own sin. That's because I fail to see the root of my sin. I don't realize that it is really no small thing. It's actually moral insurrection against my King. It's a demonstration that I don't trust, believe, or love God enough to obey him.”
― Jaquelle Crowe, This Changes Everything: How the Gospel Transforms the Teen Years

“That's when I have to get my eyes off my sin, my ingratitude, and my fakeness and fix them fast on the beauty of God. On my worst day, he is the constant, always and absolutely worthy of worship.”
― Jaquelle Crowe, This Changes Everything: How the Gospel Transforms the Teen Years

“It's almost like teenaged Jesus-followers are led to believe that we're not really part of the church; we're just served by it... God doesn't call young people to attend as spectators; he calls us to invest.”
― Jaquelle Crowe, This Changes Everything: How the Gospel Transforms the Teen Years

“The gospel is where perfectionism goes to die.”
― Jaquelle Crowe, This Changes Everything: How the Gospel Transforms the Teen Years

“The reason I don’t see is because I believe that after the gospel saves us, it grabs our hands and leads us to church (Acts 2:46–47). The gospel transforms our hearts and makes us long to unite together in a community of God’s people. It demonstrates to us Christ’s colossal love for the church (Eph. 5:24–31) and calls us to love the church in return. It’s impossible (or, at best, contradictory) to love Jesus and hate the church. After we’re saved and have become part of the universal church (that is, all Christians everywhere), it is our responsibility to join a local church.”
― Jaquelle Crowe Ferris, This Changes Everything: How the Gospel Transforms the Teen Years

“The gospel is God’s story from beginning to end, and he is definitely the hero. But there’s another character in his story we haven’t really talked about. She’s not popular or glamorous or even always lovable. She can be bitter, critical, slothful, or self-righteous. She’s a damsel in some serious distress. But God loves her. He loves her so much, in fact, that he sent his Son to die for her. Who is she? She’s the church.”
― Jaquelle Crowe Ferris, This Changes Everything: How the Gospel Transforms the Teen Years