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Rachel Held Evans, born on June 8, 1981, is a well-known American columnist. Her work focuses on issues such as religion, gender, and social justice, and she has gained a wide readership with her insightful and accessible writing style.

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“We millennials have been advertised to our entire lives, and we can tell when somebody is just trying to sell us something. I think church is the last place I want to go to be sold another product.”

Thinking Want Trying Has Beens Lasts Church Products Sells Millennials Last Place

Author:Rachel Held Evans

“Church attendance may be dipping, but God can survive the Internet age. After all, He knows a thing or two about resurrection.”

Knows May Two Age Church Internet Resurrection Attendance Church Attendance

Author:Rachel Held Evans

“I don't know why Christians keep fighting over which is better-singleness or marriage-when it seems rather obvious, both from Scripture and from Church history, that both can glorify God.”

Knows Seems Christian Fighting Church Obvious Scripture Glorify Singleness Church History

Author:Rachel Held Evans

“We need to stop building our churches around categories and start building them around people.”

People Needs Church Building Categories

Book:Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church

Source: Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church

“The church is the last place we want to be sold another product, the last place we want to be entertained.”

Want Lasts Church Products Last Place

Book:Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church

Source: Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church

“No coffee shops or fog machines required [for church].”

Church Machines Coffee Shops Fog Coffee Shop

Author:Rachel Held Evans

“I can't be a Christian on my own. I need a community. I need the church.”

Needs I Can Christian Community Church My Own

Book:Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church

Source: Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church

“Imagine if every church became a place where everyone is safe, but no one is comfortable. Image if every church became a place where we told one another the truth. We might just create sanctuary.”

Ifs Might Church Imagine Safe Comfortable Sanctuary

Author:Rachel Held Evans

“Church is a moment in time when the kingdom of God draws near, when a meal, a story, a song, an apology, and even a failure id made holy by the presence of Jesus among us and within us.”

Made Moments Stories Song Jesus Church Holy Draws Kingdoms Meals Apology Kingdom Of God Moments In Time

Author:Rachel Held Evans

“Walking with someone through grief, or through the process of reconciliation, requires patience, presence, and a willingness to wander, to take the scenic route. But the modern-day church doesn't like to wander or wait. The modern-day church likes results. Convinced the gospel is a product we've got to sell to an increasingly shrinking market, we like our people to function as walking advertisements: happy, put-together, finished - proof that this Jesus stuff WORKS!”

Source: Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church

“But if the world is watching, we might as well tell the truth. And the truth is, the church doesn't offer a cure. It doesn't offer a quick fix. The church offers death and resurrection. The church offers the messy, inconvenient, gut-wrenching, never-ending work of healing and reconciliation.”

Ifs World Wells Might Church Healing Truth Is Offers Cures Guts Telling The Truth Resurrection Reconciliation Messy Never Ending Inconvenient Quick Fixes

Book:Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church

Source: Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church

“What millennials really want from the church is not a change in style but a change in substance.”

Want Church Style Substance Millennials

Author:Rachel Held Evans