Tag: Church

"I dressed up as a homeless man and sat outside our church. What I witnessed blew me away..."

"Five GAY MEN helped this man find his way BACK TO CHURCH... This episode is what Jesus would want the church to look like."

"I know this church thing. I’ve done it my whole life. But being a millennial in church is a whole different story."

'"Many people expect a pastor like me—a 29-year-old with enough piercings and tattoos to make them think I might have an “in” with my peers but not enough to totally freak them out—to know how to fix it, or even to be a draw.'

"There’s a long-held myth that the only one doing anything that matters during a sermon is the preacher. Wrong. Dead wrong."

"It’s what we emphasize, as leaders, as Christians, as the Church: speed, efficiency, acting. These are not bad qualities in and of themselves, but solely emphasized they dry up the human spirit and turn us into stressed-out versions of our intended selves."

"I took a closer look around me and noticed we stood among the dead. Thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands, of the dead... the stench hit me. Vultures descended. And as the wind kicked up, my eyes watered from the smell."

"At 7:24 the doctors declared him dead. And as I lay next to my children at night listening to my daughter sob uncontrollably because she misses her dad so much, I am not thinking about the trendiness of a church."