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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 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

“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

“In an age of information overload ... the last thing any of us needs is more information about God. We need the practice of incarnation, by which God saves the lives of those whose intellectual assent has turned them dry as dust, who have run frighteningly low on the Bread of Life, who are dying to know more God in their bodies. Not more about God. More God.”

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“It wasn't shared social status or ethnicity that brought Jesus' followers together either, nor was it total agreement on exactly who this Jesus character was - a prophet? The Messiah? The Son of God? No, there is one thing that connected all these dissimilar people together it was a shared sense of need: a hunger, a thirst, a longing. It was the certainty that, when Jesus said He came for the sick, this meant Jesus came for me.”

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

“The Holy Trinity doesn't need our permission to carry on in their endlessly resourceful work of making all things new. That we are invited to catch even a glimpse of the splendor is grace. All of it, every breath and every second is grace.”

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

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

“But the gospel doesn't need a coalition devoted to keeping the wrong people out. It needs a family of sinners, saved by grace, committed to tearing down the walls, throwing open the doors, and shouting, "Welcome! There's bread and wine. Come eat with us and talk." This isn't a kingdom for the worthy; it's a kingdom for the hungry.”

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

“What I love about the ministry of Jesus is that he identified the poor as blessed and the rich as needy...and then he went and ministered to them both. This, I think, is the difference between charity and justice. Justice means moving beyond the dichotomy between those who need and those who supply and confronting the frightening and beautiful reality that we desperately need one another.”

Source: A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband 'Master'