Quotes About Church

lot of folks in the Church today have litmus tests for religious they like and religious they do not like and approve of or do not approve of and one of them is the habit.

God does not blame me for being an individual, but for my individualism. His greatest problem is not the outward divisions and denominations that divide His church, but our own individualistic hearts.

An entire nation shook under the power of one man's [MLK's] dream! Now if one dream can do that for our nation, imagine what a dream can do for the Church.

The church thrives where people are focused on Jesus, not where they are focused on church.

would the church of Jesus Christ look like if it were made up of people who were learning to live in the same reality Jesus did, with an eye on his Father and a compassionate heart for people around him? How

If you share my frustration with the disparity between the church as Scripture talks about her and what we see reflected in our religious institutions, you're not alone. You're standing in a long line that includes the likes of Francis of Assisi, John Wycliffe, Martin Luther, John Wesley, and nameless others who dared to ask the difficult questions and struggled with the uncomfortable answers.

who do not trust Jesus to build his church cannot imagine church life without leaders and followers. They

church Jesus is building will defy all human attempts to replicate it because it is the fruit of a life well loved. It is

church is not a human creation. Rather, it is the fruit of the relationships of those who are part of a new creation—the redeemed race of humanity that relates to him as the Head. When

church of the new creation is more like wildflowers strewn across an alpine meadow than a walled garden with manicured hedges. I realize

love—not imposed order—is the nature of his church. That's why his church is a family: a Father inviting us to take our place in his home; an older brother, Jesus, who empathizes with our struggles and offers us grace in time of need; a Spirit who empowers us; and brothers and sisters who can live alongside us with love and honor. The church reflects the best of what a family can be. It is

Jesus is building this church by quietly bringing together a family so rich and vast that she doesn't need the religious conventions we've used to contain her.

simply following what Jesus put on my heart and loving people around me, I found myself living squarely in the middle of the church life I had been hungering for all those years. I didn't

Don't be concerned if it's nothing you can point to and say, 'That is the church.' You are the church. Don't be afraid to live in that reality.

Write on my gravestone: 'Infidel, Traitor.', infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.

Some porn users tell us they feel too ashamed to go to church or express their spirituality in the ways that were once meaningful to them.

My family supports the Assad regime. Especially my mother. She's a true Christian believer who goes to church every Sunday. She loves her country and wants to stay there.

Church doors are open, but social media is crowded.

A church begins to die when it says, 'They were just children.

4. The authority of the Holy Scripture, for which it ought to be believed, and obeyed, dependeth not upon the testimony of any man, or Church; but wholly upon God (who is truth itself) the author thereof: and therefore it is to be received, because it is the Word of God.

Full sexual consciousness and a natural regulation of sexual life mean the end of mystical feelings of any kind. In other words, natural sexuality is the deadly enemy of mystical religion. The church, by making the fight over sexuality the center of its dogmas and of its influence over the masses, confirms this concept.

If I received a calling to serve in the church, then I have sheep to whom I have a divine obligation to minister and to serve.

While the church is indeed to stand under the authority of the biblical witness, it must avoid bibliolatry and read Scripture with sensitivity to its particular historical contexts and its diverse literary forms.

He did not consider it "the function of law to jack up the moral tone of any community." That, he said, was "the function of the home and the church.