Jefferson Bethke

“So what do we do then? What do you do when the only thing you want to do is yell at God…

— Jefferson Bethke

“Trying to live without community is like trying to live without oxygen. We weren't created to do it.”

— Jefferson Bethke

There are some dudes who pressure her even when she says stop it. Your not a man you are just a boy…

— Jefferson Bethke

“Without the rain there is no beauty in the summer. Rain gives depth, it gives beauty, and it gives roots. If a…

— Jefferson Bethke

“We all come in with baggage. We all come in trying to find our way. We all come in with broken edges.”

— Jefferson Bethke

“When I was trying to earn Jesus by being good, I missed the real Jesus who wants us to love him and…

— Jefferson Bethke

“Even though there are few to no credible passages—properly interpreted—in Scripture that call things such as alcohol and tattoos utterly sinful, some…

— Jefferson Bethke

“Isn't that the story for many of us in America? Christianity is our default setting.”

— Jefferson Bethke

“The Bible isn't a rule book. It's a love letter. I'm not an employee. I'm a child. It's not about my performance.…

— Jefferson Bethke

“The more I read, the more I felt the Bible looked a lot more like the movie 300 than the movie Pleasantville.”

— Jefferson Bethke

“I realized we had created a Jesus who's safe for the whole family. But if we were honest, we'd ask, how is…

— Jefferson Bethke

“We refuse to turn off our computers, turn off our phone, log off Facebook, and just sit in silence, because in those…

— Jefferson Bethke

Become friends first before you ever become lovers, Get Jesus as your foundation before you get under the covers. you see when…

— Jefferson Bethke

“Jesus is Lord; we are not. Jesus is King; we are not. Jesus is Savior; we are not. The best part is…

— Jefferson Bethke

“We refuse to turn off our computers, turn off our phones, log off Facebook, and just sit in silence, because in those…

— Jefferson Bethke

“But I always wonder why we Christians are the ones who get slapped with the too-narrow-and-exclusive card when everyone's point of view…

— Jefferson Bethke

“Our lives on earth aren’t just placeholders until we go to heaven. We are to create, cultivate, and redeem while we’re here.…

— Jefferson Bethke

“We’ve lost the real Jesus—or at least exchanged him for a newer, safer, sanitized, ineffectual one. We’ve created a Christian subculture that…

— Jefferson Bethke

“In a weird way it seems the only qualification for us to be justified is to be ungodly. It's like God is…

— Jefferson Bethke

“How stupid would it look if when someone broke a hand, the foot started criticizing the hand? That what we look like…

— Jefferson Bethke

“One of my favorite things about following Jesus is I get to drop the act, admit I'm not good enough, walk in…

— Jefferson Bethke

“We children of God have been acting the same since the beginning of time toward our Father God. Yet he invites us…

— Jefferson Bethke

“The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians, who acknowledge Jesus with their mouths and walk out the…

— Jefferson Bethke

“I was just lying there, swimming in my own shame and guilt, when this still small voice whispered into the depths of…

— Jefferson Bethke