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Jay Bakker Quotes:

Jay Bakker quotes

Ocupation: Pastor

Life: b. December 18, 1975

Birthday: December 18

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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 you are, no matter what you've done. God loves you whether you love him or not and there's nothing you can do about it. As far as the negative and judgmental stuff goes, realize that Jesus has a crappy fan club. Just don't give up

Topics: Christian, Religious, Jesus

Grace saved my life; it can revolutionize yours.

source: - Jay Bakker (2011). “Fall to Grace: A Revolution of God, Self & Society”, p.17, Hachette UK

Topics: Grace

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

Topics: Tattoo, Rebellion, Pastor

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

Topics: Believe, Focus, Church, Times Of Transition

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 like that have had to lead these secret lives because they're so afraid of how people will react. I think we have to get to the point where we're restoring people and caring for them, and when they fall, we pick them up. My thing is that we need to love this guy and pray for him and his family and open our homes to him if need be. I don't know if he wants to come sleep on my futon here in Brooklyn, but he's welcome to if he'd like.

source: - "One Punk Under God". Interview With Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. December 13, 2006.

Topics: Jesus, Fall, Home

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 God who needs some sort of flesh, some sort of blood, that needs some sort of vengeance to pay for sin. My experience of a loving God who's asked me to love my enemies - this isn't a God that demands something before you are accepted. I think Jesus died because Jesus was inclusive. God is inclusive. I think that the idea of God somehow being separated from us was more man's idea.

source: - "Jay Bakker Talks Faith, Doubt and Where the Church Has Gone Wrong". Interview with Nicola Menzie, www.christianpost.com. February 14, 2013.

Topics: Jesus, Men, Thinking

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. .. This sounds so churchy, but I felt like God spoke to my heart and said '(homosexuality) is not a sin'.

Topics: Heart, People, Grace

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 I thought, "Man, what's wrong with me?" A friend of mine was like, "Man, you're full of it. You're trying to do what Christ has already done: You're trying to earn your salvation and you can't - it's a free gift." It sounded too good to be true. He said, "You need to start reading the Bible for yourself and stop taking everyone else's word for it." When I really started to do this, I realized God loved me no matter what.

Topics: Reading, Men, Trying

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 on sand. For me, faith is about believing in those things you can't see and at times can't understand. I've been really blessed to have people who are open to that and stick around. Not everyone does stick around, though.

source: - "One Punk Under God". Interview With Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. December 13, 2006.

Topics: Believe, Blessed, Thinking

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 I've been able to reach some people who don't feel comfortable in churches. I do make mistakes and I can be goofy and quirky sometimes. I'm not the world's greatest speaker. I don't try to hide that.

source: - "One Punk Under God". Interview With Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. December 13, 2006.

Topics: Mistake, Thinking, People

I'm pro-gay marriage. I don't believe that that's a sin.

Topics: Believe, Gay, Sin, Pro Gay

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.

source: - "One Punk Under God". Interview With Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. December 13, 2006.

Topics: Heart, Gay, People, Gay Friend

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 is to want people to be happy with me. But sometimes I feel my convictions are so great that it would be compromising the truth if I didn't do that. So sometimes it's a struggle to say, "This is what I think; this is what I believe, and if you don't agree with me, oh well." The hardest thing for people to accept is the gay-affirming issue. It's hard for people to agree to disagree on that one.

source: - "One Punk Under God". Interview With Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. December 13, 2006.

Topics: Believe, Struggle, Thinking

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 have an agnostic person who comes on a regular basis, a transgender person who said that they found our church because they we're looking for a church that wouldn't hate them. The congregation is really great.

source: - "One Punk Under God". Interview With Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. December 13, 2006.

Topics: Hate, Interesting, Church

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