A Scandalous Freedom Quotes

“You ought to live your life with such freedom and joy that uptight Christians will doubt your salvation.”
― Steve Brown, A Scandalous Freedom: The Radical Nature of the Gospel

“The good news is that Christ frees us from the need to obnoxiously focus on our goodness, our commitment, and our correctness. Religious has made us obsessive almost beyond endurance. Jesus invited us to a dance...and we've turned in into a march of soldiers, always checking to see if we're doing it right and are in step and in line with the other soldiers. We know a dance would be more fun, but we believe we must go through hell to get to heaven, so we keep marching.”
― Steve Brown, A Scandalous Freedom: The Radical Nature of the Gospel

“You are really and truly and completely free. There is no kicker. There is no if, and, or but. You are free. You can do it right or wrong. You can obey or disobey. You can run from Christ or run to Christ. You can choose to become a faithful Christian or an unfaithful Christian. You can cry, cuss, and spit, or laugh, sing, and dance. You can read a novel or the Bible. You can watch television or pray. You're free...really free.”
― Steve Brown, A Scandalous Freedom: The Radical Nature of the Gospel

“The only people who get better are people who know that, if they never get better, God will love them anyway.”
― Steve Brown, A Scandalous Freedom: The Radical Nature of the Gospel

“If you use the law to judge others, go ahead, but don't assume that your judgment mimics the judgement of God.”
― Steve Brown, A Scandalous Freedom: The Radical Nature of the Gospel

“If you've been a Christian very long, you may be wondering why I left out the guilt, the condemnation, and the promises to get better and better in every way, every day. I left them out because they simply aren't in the Bible.”
― Steve Brown, A Scandalous Freedom: The Radical Nature of the Gospel

“God save me from politicians, Christians, or pagans who think they are my mother!”
― Steve Brown, A Scandalous Freedom: The Radical Nature of the Gospel

“Whenever a new Christian comes into the church, I wince a bit, because I’m afraid that they will get the “religion disease,” that the “church virus” will kill off the joy and freedom Jesus purchased on the cross to give them.”
― Steve Brown, A Scandalous Freedom

“Too many of us have come to believe in a God who is a child abuser, a God who demands that we go through hell to get to heaven.”
― Steve Brown, A Scandalous Freedom

“If Jesus said we’re free, we ought to accept his declaration at face value and run with it. It ought to help us define ourselves. But it doesn’t. Christians will do almost anything to get away from the simple meaning of the word and the wonderful experience of freedom.”
― Steve Brown, A Scandalous Freedom

“Whenever a Christian follows authority figures who don’t allow questions about themselves or their direction or teaching, get out and don’t look back. Whenever someone says he knows what’s best for your life, better than you do; whenever someone says that she speaks for God; whenever someone pretends to be anything other than a flawed human being who makes mistakes and sometimes gets it wrong—that person is sitting on a pedestal of his or her own making, and if you don’t destroy it, God will. So many freedom-destroying things we do are connected to an irresponsible decision to allow others to be to us what only God is supposed to be.”
― Steve Brown, A Scandalous Freedom

“Our freedom has been taken away because we thought that we couldn’t be free unless we were perfect.”
― Steve Brown, A Scandalous Freedom

“Until a Christian struggles with the issue of freedom, he or she will remain frightened, obsessive, and bound.”
― Steve Brown, A Scandalous Freedom

“You are really and truly and completely free.”
― Steve Brown, A Scandalous Freedom

“Love in response to goodness isn’t love, but reward. Fortunately for us, that’s not God’s way. Our relationship with God is not a matter of reward, but of love. And that’s why we can enjoy such staggering freedom in his presence.”
― Steve Brown, A Scandalous Freedom

“It is so freeing to realize that we don’t have anything to prove or to protect. We don’t have to fix anything. God doesn’t need any help. He did fine before we came along and will do fine long after we’re gone. The great thing about being a Christian is that you can forgive, love, and encourage ’em all, and then let God sort it out.”
― Steve Brown, A Scandalous Freedom

“I can think of hardly anything that will kill your joy and freedom more than wearing a mask geared to get others to accept you because you are acting like them.”
― Steve Brown, A Scandalous Freedom

“Jesus invited us to a dance … and we’ve turned it into a march of soldiers, always checking to see if we’re doing it right and are in step and in line with the other soldiers. We know a dance would be more fun, but we believe we must go through hell to get to heaven, so we keep marching.”
― Steve Brown, A Scandalous Freedom

“There really is something neurotic about Christians who spend most of their time trying desperately to please a God who is already very pleased. They don’t have any freedom, and they sometimes take away the freedom of others.”
― Steve Brown, A Scandalous Freedom

“Our honest belief that we can be far better than we are is one of the major reasons we are so bound.”
― Steve Brown, A Scandalous Freedom

“God will not only love you if you don’t get better; he will teach you that getting better isn’t the issue. His love is the issue.”
― Steve Brown, A Scandalous Freedom

“Perfectionism robs you of your freedom.”
― Steve Brown, A Scandalous Freedom

“It’s not very smart to keep trying to do something you can’t do and never will be able to do.”
― Steve Brown, A Scandalous Freedom

“Do you want to know what God is like? Then look at Jesus. If you want to know how God reacts to people, look at how Jesus reacted to people. If you want to know what God thinks, how he acts and who he is, don’t get with a group of people and vote on it. One doesn’t discover divine truth with an election. If you want to know the truth about God, don’t get a book on theology, listen to a preacher, or even read a book like this one. For God’s sake, go to Jesus.”
― Steve Brown, A Scandalous Freedom

“Let me once again give you the principle I offered in chapter 2: If there is no God, there are no values; if there are no values, there is no meaning; and if there is no meaning, you are a turnip and will simply live for a while, die, and then go back to the soil from which you came.”
― Steve Brown, A Scandalous Freedom

“If you worship a God who is out to get you, you will never be free … free to cuss and spit, free to move to joyous acceptance, and free to get on with your life.”
― Steve Brown, A Scandalous Freedom

“Perfectionism will make you sour, mean, and judgmental, and it will rob you of the freedom Jesus died to give you.”
― Steve Brown, A Scandalous Freedom