Skip to content

Church Quote by Jay Bakker

“I had a lot of gay friends and even had some congregation members who were gay, and I just wasn't sure where I stood. In my heart, I was like, "How can I condemn these people for their love of one another?" I started looking deeper into the Bible and studying and then I went to a gay-affirming…” quote by Jay Bakker — Download Open image

“I had a lot of gay friends and even had some congregation members who were gay, and I just wasn't sure where I stood. In my heart, I was like, "How can I condemn these people for their love of one another?" I started looking deeper into the Bible and studying and then I went to a gay-affirming church. It all came together at one point.”

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (5 ratings)

Church Friendship Gay Gay friend Heart My heart People Study Together

More by Jay Bakker

Don't let the bastards get you down. Christians aren't God. Religious people aren't God. God loves you, just where you're at... just the way…

Image

Grace saved my life; it can revolutionize yours.

Image

As a preacher I just feel like I have to be honest; I couldn't live with myself if I wasn't. I think that's why…

Image

Well, these tattoos aren't really rebellion. These tattoos are all tattoos I've had since I have been a pastor.

Image

I always thought I had to earn God's love and approval. I kept trying, but it never seemed like I could do it, and…

Image

We believe that this time of transition will make for a more dynamic Revolution Church, and will help us focus and expand our scope…

Image

The more I follow grace, the more I'm drawn to him (God), the more I'm willing to stand up for people being persecuted. ..…

Image

I am definitely questioning the atonement and trying to discover how we can see it in a different way. We've got this image of…

Image

I think there's pressure when you're a pastor that you have to have all the answers, and if you don't, your faith is built…

Image

Jesus explains that the church is like a hospital. But this hospital doesn't want to let any sick people in. I feel like people…

Image

I love New York. It's made me realize that God's a lot bigger than I thought he was. It's a really interesting crowd. We…

Image

I try to love my neighbor as myself but I'm not trying to be a people pleaser. Sometimes that's hard, because my human nature…

Image

Explore all 14 Jay Bakker quotes

More Church quotes

While the 1963 Birmingham church bombing is the most historic, there also was a series of church burnings in the 1990s. Recognition of the…

Image

If I had my brothers I think with just a little bit of the correct marketing, I'd like to be almost exclusively in small…

Image

Turn over the pages of history and read the damning record of the church's opposition to every advance in every field of science. . . .

Image

Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for…

Thomas Jefferson

Image

Jeff Chu's pilgrimage across America to discover his own place as a gay man in the Christian church as well as attitudes about being…

Image

God is not calling us to go to church; he is calling us to be his church, the hope of the world.

Craig Groeschel

Image

The emerging church movement has come to believe that the ultimate context of the spiritual aspirations of a follower of Jesus Christ is not…

Samir Selmanovic

Image

T]he church is not a place. It's not a building. It's not a preaching point. It's not a spiritual service provider. It's a people…

Image

There could be no more powerful argument against mixing religion and government than the success of independent African American churches in placing racial segregation…

Image

Worship is not about personality, temperament, personal limitations, church background, or comfort. It is about God.

Image

A beggarly people, A church and no steeple.

Thomas B. Macaulay

Image

Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms…

Image

Browse all 9,067 Church quotes