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" A lot of Christians have been taught a story that begins in chapter 3 of Genesis, instead of chapter 1. If your story doesn't begin in the beginning, but begins in chapter 3, then it starts with sin, and so the story becomes about dealing with the sin problem. So Jesus is seen as primarily dealing with our sins. "
Beginning
Story
Sin
" As a pastor, you get invited into the most poignant moments of people's lives. Whether it's a wedding or a funeral or a hospital visit, you get invited into the center of the event, whether or not you know the people. "
You
Know
Moments
" Celebrity seems totally at odds with authentic community and honest, real sorts of relationships. "
Relationships
Celebrity
Community
" Every generation has to ask difficult questions about what does it mean to follow Jesus. "
Difficult
Questions
Generation
" For a lot of people in our world today, God has become about believing the right stuff so you don't get in trouble. "
Trouble
World
You
" For many, 'desire' is a bad word, something we're supposed to 'give up for God.' That kind of thinking can be really destructive because it teaches people to deny their hearts, their true selves. "
True
Thinking
People
" I am for love, whether it's a man and a woman, a woman and a woman, a man and a man. "
Whether
I Am
Love
" I believe God gives people the right to say no, to resist, to refuse, to reject, to cling to their sins, to cling to their version of their story. "
People
Believe
God
" I embrace the term 'evangelical,' if by that we mean a belief that we together can actually work for change in the world, caring for the environment, extending to the poor generosity and kindness, a hopeful outlook. That's a beautiful sort of thing. "
Change
World
Work
" If there's any place where you would express your deepest doubts, it would be church. "
Deepest
Place
Church
" I like to say that I practice militant mysticism. I'm really absolutely sure of some things that I don't quite know. "
Things
Know
Like
" I'm interested in painting the most beautifully compelling pictures and images and metaphors and stories and explanations possible that will put Jesus in language for a world that desperately needs to hear it. "
Pictures
Language
Painting
" I'm very comfortable in a room with thousands of people. "
Room
Comfortable
People
" My experience as a pastor is lots of people have really toxic, dangerous, psychologically devastating images of God in their head, images of a God who's not good. "
People
God
Experience
" My parents were both very intellectually honest, straightforward, and for them, faith meant that you were fully engaged. "
You
Parents
Honest
" No one has the last word other than God. "
Last
God
Other
" Over the years, I've realized that I have as much in common with the performance artist, the standup comedian, the screenwriter, as I do with the theologian. I'm in an odd world where I make things and share them with people. "
World
Artist
Over
" Suffering is traumatic and awful and we get angry and we shake our fists at the heavens and we vent and rage and weep. But in the process we discover a new tomorrow, one we never would have imagined otherwise. "
New
Angry
Process
" Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore. "
Suffering
Old
New
" Swords appear strong, but they're actually quite weak. Jesus appears weak, but he's actually quite strong. "
Jesus
Quite
He
" The fundamental story arc of the Bible is God is passionate about rescuing this world, restoring it, renewing it. "
World
Story
God
" The historical orthodox Christian faith is extremely wide and diverse. "
Faith
Christian
Orthodox
" The myth of redemptive violence - Caesar, peace, and victory - is in people's bones so deeply, we aren't even aware of it. You crush the opposition; that's how we bring peace. "
People
You
Victory
" To be honest with you, I am passionate about all the people out there who want to know Jesus, they want to know God, and they are sick of a system that is hung up on a bunch of things that have nothing to do with the love of God. "
People
Sick
Love
" We live in a world where we have friends, neighbors, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, people we journey with for years who are gay. And we need to love, affirm and all of us together work on the real problems that we have in the world. "
Live
Journey
Together
" Well, I affirm orthodox Christian faith. I affirm the Nicene Creed. I don't think I'm doing anything terribly new. "
Think
New
Faith
" What we believe about heaven and hell is incredibly important because it exposes what we believe about who God is and what God is like. "
God
Heaven
Hell
" When someone sets out to be controversial or provocative or shocking as an end in itself, I don't think that's a noble goal. "
Someone
Goal
End
" When we get to what happens when we die, we don't have any video footage. So let's at least be honest that we are speculating, because we are. "
Get
Because
Any
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