I am for love, whether it's a man and a woman, a woman and a woman, a man and a man.
From Rob Bell
We live in a world where we have friends, neighbors, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, people we journey with for years who are gay. And we need to love, affirm and all of us together work on the real problems that we have in the world.
For a lot of people in our world today, God has become about believing the right stuff so you don't get in trouble.
I believe God gives people the right to say no, to resist, to refuse, to reject, to cling to their sins, to cling to their version of their story.
To be honest with you, I am passionate about all the people out there who want to know Jesus, they want to know God, and they are sick of a system that is hung up on a bunch of things that have nothing to do with the love of God.
My experience as a pastor is lots of people have really toxic, dangerous, psychologically devastating images of God in their head, images of a God who's not good.
Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore.
Swords appear strong, but they're actually quite weak. Jesus appears weak, but he's actually quite strong.
Every generation has to ask difficult questions about what does it mean to follow Jesus.
If there's any place where you would express your deepest doubts, it would be church.
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