Nadia Bolz-Weber Professions : Pastor Born : 1969 Browse All Authors Top 3 quotes by Nadia Bolz-Weber It happens to all of us, I concluded that Easter Sunday morning. God simply keeps reaching down into the dirt of humanity and resurrecting us from the graves we dig for ourselves through our violence, our lies, our selfishness, our arrogance, and our addictions. And God keeps loving us back to life over and over. Nadia Bolz-Weber easter morning lying Jesus taught us to pray, "Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us" not forgive us and smite those bastards who hurt us. Nadia Bolz-Weber taught-us hurt jesus As a teenager, I began to question the Great Christian Sorting System. My gay friends in high school were kind and funny and loved me, so I suspected that my church had placed them in the wrong category... Injustices in the world needed to be addressed and not ignored. Christians weren't good; people who fought for peace and justice were good. I had been lied to, and in my anger at being lied to about the containers, I left the church. But it turns out, I hadn't actually escaped the sorting system. I had just changed the labels. Nadia Bolz-Weber teenager christian love Similar Authors Brian Houston pastor Brian D. McLaren pastor Andy Stanley pastor Alistair Begg pastor Bob Sorge pastor Bob Enyart pastor All Authors
