“Jesus did not come to start a religion. He came to blow religion off the map. Jesus did not come to tinker with our ideas about God. He came to show us who God really is. Jesus did not come… — Ronnie McBrayer Copy Share Image
“Jesus and institutional religion are on a collision course, and those who go with Jesus will find more adventure, freedom, and religion-bursting grace than… — Ronnie McBrayer Copy Share Image
“We preach grace, but we don’t always practice it. We talk about God’s mercy, but we don’t always want the people who need it… — Ronnie McBrayer Copy Share Image
“One of the tragedies of current Christianity in America is that we have so few compelling illustrations of this life that Jesus lived and… — Ronnie McBrayer Copy Share Image
“The objective, according to Jesus, was not to get people inside of heaven, but to get heaven inside of people. An understanding of the… — Ronnie McBrayer Copy Share Image
“When “doctrinal integrity” (a term usually defined by those using it) trumps kindness and grace, faith has wandered out of bounds. Anything claiming to… — Ronnie McBrayer Copy Share Image
“Many of us vote under the assumption that if only the right man/woman/party/ideology could get seated in the White House, the Court House, or… — Ronnie McBrayer Copy Share Image
“We in the revivalist tradition have viewed grace only in terms of privatized, individualized spirituality. Give people enough Jesus to save their souls, move… — Ronnie McBrayer Copy Share Image
“Nowadays, as I write and speak on a wide variety of topics, this one subject – Jesus’ way of nonviolence – always generates the… — Ronnie McBrayer Copy Share Image
“Because we follow Christ and are citizens in the kingdom of God, the rationale “that’s just the way it is,” is not near enough… — Ronnie McBrayer Copy Share Image
“The good news, as Jesus proclaims it, is not just an evacuation plan to rescue people from earth or the sufferings of the afterlife,… — Ronnie McBrayer Copy Share Image
“To be like God is not to have perfect doctrinal integrity, to get the details of church “right,” or to be religiously and moralistically… — Ronnie McBrayer Copy Share Image
“Jesus did not come to start a religion. He came to blow religion off the map. Jesus did not come to tinker with our… — Ronnie McBrayer Copy Share Image
“Being a “Christian” – a word used only three times in the New Testament – is not Jesus’ goal for his people. But the… — Ronnie McBrayer Copy Share Image
“Violence promises us something we all deeply desire, something we genuinely want; violence promises us peace. Violence promises us, that in the end, when… — Ronnie McBrayer Copy Share Image
“Jesus is not a white, middle-class Republican. Jesus is not a Democrat, a Libertarian, a Marxist, or a Socialist. Jesus is not a Baptist,… — Ronnie McBrayer Copy Share Image
