Emptiness Quote by Ronnie McBrayer

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Nowadays, as I write and speak on a wide variety of topics, this one subject – Jesus’ way of nonviolence – always generates the…

— Ronnie McBrayer

“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

“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

“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

“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