Jesus’s Broken Church Quotes

“Spreading the gospel message requires going out to encounter people where they are, not expecting them to come to us and our church services (Acts 8:4, Acts 8:40, Romans 10:14–15, and 2 Corinthians 10:16). And”
― Peter DeHaan, Jesus’s Broken Church: Reimagining Our Sunday Traditions from a New Testament Perspective

“sacrifices (1 Peter 2:5). Read that again: We are living stones built into his spiritual temple, serving as a holy priesthood to offer him spiritual sacrifices. Wow! This can change everything—and it should. No longer do priests (ministers) need to serve as our liaison between the Creator and the created. Instead, all who follow Jesus become his priests—a nation of priests—just as God wanted back in Exodus 19:6.”
― Peter DeHaan, Jesus’s Broken Church: Reimagining Our Sunday Traditions from a New Testament Perspective

“We are living stones built into his spiritual temple, serving as a holy priesthood to offer him spiritual sacrifices.”
― Peter DeHaan, Jesus’s Broken Church: Reimagining Our Sunday Traditions from a New Testament Perspective

“If we are truly priests through what Jesus did for us, then we don’t need ministers to point us to God, explain him to us, or help us know him. God wants us to do that for ourselves as his holy priests.”
― Peter DeHaan, Jesus’s Broken Church: Reimagining Our Sunday Traditions from a New Testament Perspective

“Through Jesus, we become a holy priesthood so that we can offer spiritual sacrifices to God”
― Peter DeHaan, Jesus’s Broken Church: Reimagining Our Sunday Traditions from a New Testament Perspective

“It challenges our perspective of needing to go to church to experience God.”
― Peter DeHaan, Jesus’s Broken Church: Reimagining Our Sunday Traditions from a New Testament Perspective

“These two simple principles—love God and love others—summarize the purpose and intent of the entire Old Testament Law and the writings of the prophets. Jesus removes a set of impossible-to-please laws and replaces them with one principle: love.”
― Peter DeHaan, Jesus’s Broken Church: Reimagining Our Sunday Traditions from a New Testament Perspective

“Instead, his mission is to bring the Old Testament into fruition, according to God’s plan, set in place from the beginning. Jesus makes this clear. He says, “I have not come to abolish the Law and the prophets but to fulfill them” (Matthew 5:17).”
― Peter DeHaan, Jesus’s Broken Church: Reimagining Our Sunday Traditions from a New Testament Perspective

“This is not what Jesus had in mind. Through his sacrificial death, in one single action, Jesus does away with the need to go to a building, hire staff, and take an offering. We should do the same.”
― Peter DeHaan, Jesus’s Broken Church: Reimagining Our Sunday Traditions from a New Testament Perspective

“Today we cling to the Old Testament model of church. We go to a church building to encounter God. We’re led by professional clergy who represent him to us. And we give our tithes and offerings to pay for it all.”
― Peter DeHaan, Jesus’s Broken Church: Reimagining Our Sunday Traditions from a New Testament Perspective

“We expect to meet in our own dedicated worship space. And we hire staff to serve as our liaison between us and God. These things carry a price tag, and our church budget reflects it.”
― Peter DeHaan, Jesus’s Broken Church: Reimagining Our Sunday Traditions from a New Testament Perspective

“We go to church. We connect with God. Then we head home. Once we leave the parking lot, we revert to non-church mode and resume our everyday life.”
― Peter DeHaan, Jesus’s Broken Church: Reimagining Our Sunday Traditions from a New Testament Perspective

“people go to a church building to experience God. The implication is that we can’t connect with him at other locations or through different situations.”
― Peter DeHaan, Jesus’s Broken Church: Reimagining Our Sunday Traditions from a New Testament Perspective

“As you meet, be sure to keep your focus on Jesus and his Holy Spirit.”
― Peter DeHaan, Jesus’s Broken Church: Reimagining Our Sunday Traditions from a New Testament Perspective

“We should empower the laity to reclaim communion, reforming it from church ritual”
― Peter DeHaan, Jesus’s Broken Church: Reimagining Our Sunday Traditions from a New Testament Perspective

“Yes, the kingdom of God is about our hope for heaven when we die, but it’s also about our time on earth now. The kingdom of God is about Jesus and his salvation, along with the life we lead in response to his gift to us. The kingdom of God is about eternal life, and that eternal life begins today. Heaven is just phase two. We’re living in phase one—at least we should be.”
― Peter DeHaan, Jesus’s Broken Church: Reimagining Our Sunday Traditions from a New Testament Perspective

“We must view the kingdom of God as both a present reality and a future promise.”
― Peter DeHaan, Jesus’s Broken Church: Reimagining Our Sunday Traditions from a New Testament Perspective

“Jesus wants disciples. He wants followers who go all in for him.”
― Peter DeHaan, Jesus’s Broken Church: Reimagining Our Sunday Traditions from a New Testament Perspective

“We need to rethink what happens at our church, deemphasizing the significance of music and message while elevating the importance of community, one that functions in unity for Jesus.”
― Peter DeHaan, Jesus’s Broken Church: Reimagining Our Sunday Traditions from a New Testament Perspective

“We need to let our light shine so that the world can see (Matthew 5:14–16 and James 2:14–17). All of humanity is watching. May they see Jesus in what we do (1 Peter 2:12).”
― Peter DeHaan, Jesus’s Broken Church: Reimagining Our Sunday Traditions from a New Testament Perspective

“In recent years I haven’t gone to church for the music or the message. I show up for the chance to experience meaningful community before or after the service.”
― Peter DeHaan, Jesus’s Broken Church: Reimagining Our Sunday Traditions from a New Testament Perspective

“People expect a church—their local church—to last forever. They forget that a congregation, comprised of people, is a living, breathing, and changing entity. It’s organic.”
― Peter DeHaan, Jesus’s Broken Church: Reimagining Our Sunday Traditions from a New Testament Perspective

“Instead of an unhealthy, unbiblical focus on the three Bs, what if we and our churches looked to the three Cs of changed lives, community, and commitment?”
― Peter DeHaan, Jesus’s Broken Church: Reimagining Our Sunday Traditions from a New Testament Perspective

“The triple aim of most churches—attendance, offerings, and facility—doesn’t matter as much as most people think. Said more bluntly, most church leaders today focus on the three Bs: butts (in the chairs), bucks (in the offering), and buildings. The congregation buys into this without hesitation. These measures of success become the focus. But this focus is off, even looking in the wrong direction.”
― Peter DeHaan, Jesus’s Broken Church: Reimagining Our Sunday Traditions from a New Testament Perspective

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― Peter DeHaan, Jesus’s Broken Church: Reimagining Our Sunday Traditions from a New Testament Perspective

“making”
― Peter DeHaan, Jesus’s Broken Church: Reimagining Our Sunday Traditions from a New Testament Perspective

“They”
― Peter DeHaan, Jesus’s Broken Church: Reimagining Our Sunday Traditions from a New Testament Perspective

“Jesus’s”
― Peter DeHaan, Jesus’s Broken Church: Reimagining Our Sunday Traditions from a New Testament Perspective

“Even in the Old Testament, God is already correcting his people’s idea that he lives in the temple (see 2 Samuel 7:6–7) and that they must go there to engage with him. Remember that God didn’t issue his commands about the temple, priests, and tithes until after the people refused to let him speak to them directly and insisted that Moses stand in for them (Exodus 19:6).”
― Peter DeHaan, Jesus’s Broken Church: Reimagining Our Sunday Traditions from a New Testament Perspective

“We should look for a church that provides opportunities for us to serve, according to how God has wired us, in ways that make us come alive.”
― Peter DeHaan, Jesus’s Broken Church: Reimagining Our Sunday Traditions from a New Testament Perspective