Stupid Shit Heard In Church Quotes

“You don’t have to see Jesus as a white, AR-15 carrying, pick-up driving, Rambo-Republican wrapped in the American flag, you choose to.”
― Chris Kratzer, Stupid Shit Heard In Church

“You don’t need biblical inerrancy and Bible worship in order to encounter God, but it sure does help to control people.”
― Chris Kratzer, Stupid Shit Heard In Church

“If you’re fed up with feeling spiritually obligated to prequalify people for love, condemn the LGBTQ community, discriminate against minorities, embrace sexism, weaponize the Bible, and turn Jesus into the hood ornament of your world bulldozer as you seek the dominance and supremacy of your faith in all of society, you’re not insane. No, you’re not insane. You’re not a heathen. You’re not a heretic, nor a snowflake. No, you are Jesus. Grace is brave. Be brave.”
― Chris Kratzer, Stupid Shit Heard In Church

“-it takes much more faith to walk away from “church” than it does to walk into it.”
― Chris Kratzer, Stupid Shit Heard In Church

“Therefore, our job as the “church,” is to embark on our own spiritual journey, awaken to all that we are and She is, and out of that revelation do what we love to do in ways that honor Grace, and deeply serve the humanity we encounter along our path.”
― Chris Kratzer, Stupid Shit Heard In Church

“No, God doesn’t have some intricate, preconceived blueprint for your future, or some grandiose vision projected on the divine screen of Her mind as to who you are supposed to become and what you are supposed to do. There is no spiritual maze to tirelessly wander in hopes of finally discovering and following God’s so-called “perfect will.” It doesn’t exist. Instead, you are God’s perfect will. As you are. Where you are, or wherever you go. You are the fulfillment of all expectation. You are the sum of Divine aspiration. You are the road God delights in traveling. God did not create you to become something or do something “big” that you are not already. There is no grandiose, perfect path to unlock, choose, or achieve. Instead, you are the “big” thing God is doing. You are the revival God is bringing to the cosmos.”
― Chris Kratzer, Stupid Shit Heard In Church

“In 2016 and again in 2020, Conservative Evangelicals were lost in the sea of materialism, capitalism, corruption, and hypocrisy as they endorsed their bloated orange Messiah. Trump embodied the shallow faith and deep rot that reflected their own souls. Through the love of politics, power, and money, the church relegated the message of Jesus into political t-shirts and bumper stickers. Christ became a prop or mascot of a forgotten faith.”
― Chris Kratzer, Stupid Shit Heard In Church

“Nothing of you is going to define anything of me. Never. No way, and no how. That’s how I know... I’m OK.”
― Chris Kratzer, Stupid Shit Heard In Church

“Hell hath no fury like an Evangelical with a Bible, a conspiracy theory, and an appetite for revenge.”
― Chris Kratzer, Stupid Shit Heard In Church

“You can’t get enough of it. He’s stirred up within you a frenzy of orgasmic self-centeredness you can’t put down. F*ck everyone else; this is your life, your country, your guns, and your God.”
― Chris Kratzer, Stupid Shit Heard In Church

“He’s the opposite of everything Jesus is and stands for. But sadly, that’s exactly what you love.”
― Chris Kratzer, Stupid Shit Heard In Church

“if you hear statements demanding that you should give your obedience to “what the Bible says,” what you are really hearing is a person’s demand that you should give your obedience to what they say the Bible says.”
― Chris Kratzer, Stupid Shit Heard In Church

“I love real people more than false peace.”
― Chris Kratzer, Stupid Shit Heard In Church

“When you worship a madman as President, who is a racist, sinful, sexist bully, and whose rhetoric and policies are harming the lives of innocent people, there is no “agree to disagree” or just “get along.”
― Chris Kratzer, Stupid Shit Heard In Church

“There’s a big difference between being a “peacekeeper” and a “peacemaker.” One is willing to excuse, overlook, and even embrace evil in order to “keep the peace,” just because conflict is unpleasant. They believe they are somehow holier, and they worship passiveness rather than true reconciliation. The other realizes there can be no real peace until truth is admitted, justice is served, and change has occurred--even if that requires the presence of discord, conflict, and unrest.”
― Chris Kratzer, Stupid Shit Heard In Church

“Their original intentions were likely noble and good, even contributing positive, important things to the Kingdom along the way.”
― Chris Kratzer, Stupid Shit Heard In Church

“Donald Trump, Robert Jeffress, and Franklin Graham are nothing like Jesus. Sadly, not even close.”
― Chris Kratzer, Stupid Shit Heard In Church

“Salvation was never ever about human response, but always about what already is, and forever shall be--your irrevocable, irreversible, and unconditional communion and inclusion with God.”
― Chris Kratzer, Stupid Shit Heard In Church

“Any “Christian” who is not consistently connecting to a “church” is deemed to be embarking on an empty journey.”
― Chris Kratzer, Stupid Shit Heard In Church

“We wonder how a “pussy-grabbing,” adulterous man can be elected President, and passionately be supported by many conservative Christians.”
― Chris Kratzer, Stupid Shit Heard In Church

“The concern of Jesus is not that we love too much, extend Grace too extravagantly, rest too comfortably in the goodness of God, or resist the religious spirit too vehemently. Rather, it’s that we love less, extend less, rest less, and resist less.”
― Chris Kratzer, Stupid Shit Heard In Church

“Yes, people’s feedback can be helpful and life-giving, but only when placed under the voice of the Christ that lives within you, and whose mind is yours. The job of the Holy Spirit in your life isn’t to convict you of anything, but rather to convince you of your everything. Do you. Be you. Unafraid. That’s the voice of the Father calling you to life and true living.”
― Chris Kratzer, Stupid Shit Heard In Church

“To be sure, evil is evil, but the cries of the oppressed ring wholly different from the barks of the oppressor. These are distinctions that must be distinguished and never confused, as much as the oppressor may desire to do so in order to camouflage their poison as the cure.”
― Chris Kratzer, Stupid Shit Heard In Church

“Here’s a message you probably won’t hear at church this morning--the Gospel isn’t an offer of what could be, but rather a pronouncement of what already is. All are saved, or all are not. Faith is merely awakening to the wholeness you already possess, and the God of Love who authored it. Therefore, the Christian life is not a test--it’s a rest. It’s not about becoming someone tomorrow who you aren’t today, through behavioral modification and sin management. Rather, it’s simply the journey of our actions effortlessly catching up to our identities in Christ, as we rest in Grace. In fact, as a finished work of the cross, there is nothing to improve in you--only everything to believe. You lack no spiritual blessing, as wholeness and holiness are completely yours already--not because of your performance, but because of His. You are the delight of the Father, and nothing less than the beauty of His face. Now believe it, and live it. Throw aside the shackles of guilt, condemnation, and shame that imprison you. Turn off the voices of insecurity, inferiority, and self-criticism that haunt you. Be free. Do you. Live a life shining your truth in ways that reflect Grace. Grace is brave. Be brave.”
― Chris Kratzer, Stupid Shit Heard In Church

“protecting and prospering of your white, male, heterosexual, right-wing, conservative, Christian faith system of control.”
― Chris Kratzer, Stupid Shit Heard In Church

“With all the ways that you spiritually justify the marginalization and discrimination of anything and everything that threatens your faith system of white, male, heterosexual, right-wing, conservative, Christian supremacy--maybe, just maybe, the real reason why you believe being gay is a sin is because you want to.”
― Chris Kratzer, Stupid Shit Heard In Church

“This is the poisoned soil from which all self-righteousness, discrimination, hate, condemnation, division, religion, and bigotry grows.”
― Chris Kratzer, Stupid Shit Heard In Church

“This is the evil that seeks to divide our hearts into good or evil, souls into saved or lost, people into affirmed or condemned, when all that God has created is fully good, saved, and equally affirmed from the foundation of eternity.”
― Chris Kratzer, Stupid Shit Heard In Church

“As Christ is all, and in all. His mind is everywhere.”
― Chris Kratzer, Stupid Shit Heard In Church

“In fact, here’s the gospel of conservative, Evangelical Christianity… ”Everything is wrong with you, and you need to believe and become like us in order to fix it, or else.”
― Chris Kratzer, Stupid Shit Heard In Church