Quotes About Church

Young evangelicals are likely to leave their faith because they are not able to articulate their own faith, and many lack a biblical worldview.

Corporate worship is to be orderly.

Corporate worship is to be missional.

Neither do I like to see what I call a young people's corner in a church. They often catch habits of inattention and irreverence there, which it takes years to unlearn, if ever they are unlearned at all. What I like to see is a whole family sitting together, old and young, side by side, men, women, and children, serving God according to their households.

Rigel, Betelgeuse, and Orion. There was no finer church, no finer choir, than the stars speaking in silence to the many consumptives silently condemned, a legion upon the dark rooftops. The wind came down from the north like a runner in lacrosse, violent and hard, to batter every living thing. They were there, each one alone in conversation with the stars, mining ephemeral love from cold and distant light.

The medieval church imposed fast days on which sexual intercourse and the eating of flesh were forbidden, but eating cold foods was permitted. because fish came from water, it was deemed cold, as were waterfowl and whale, but meat was considered hot food.

It was one thing to talk of using technology to topple the authority of the aristocracy and the Church, but who or what would replace them? Diderot and the French revolutionaries had assumed it would be "the people." But as the nineteenth-century French historian Jules Michelet once wryly observed, "The people, in its highest ideal, is difficult to find in the people." As

The church is about life-giving relationships that come together in gatherings. When we gather, we don't primarily assemble in the style of the synagogue: to learn, to receive, to evaluate, and to contemplate. Rather, we assemble in the style of the temple: to worship, to pray, to encounter God, and to bring our offering. We come as living stones, fitted together in the house of God as a collective dwelling place.

Too many Western believers still unconsciously view the church like a cruise ship, with a large, well-trained staff looking after every need. The church was never intended to be a cruise ship! It was always meant to be more like a fishing boat, with everyone working, everyone helping to catch and clean fish, and everyone enjoying the satisfaction of knowing that they gave their all. In such a crew, there is loyalty and friendship centered around a common mission.

The church is a hospital, to be sure. But that hospital is a MASH unit, not a gated retirement center!

The church is often compared to a football game: 65,000 people in desperate need of exercise, and 22 people in desperate need of rest! Spectator Christianity compartmentalizes our lives so church becomes a 2-hour slot rather than a lifestyle.

When the King and His kingdom are the focus, the church happens. When the church is the focus, the King and His kingdom get relegated to second place. Jesus' admonition to seek first the kingdom is central to what it means to build kingdom churches.

When the King and His kingdom are the focus, the church happens. When the church is the focus, the King and His kingdom get relegated to second place.

The strong winds of change are blowing, and it is nothing less than a kingdom revolution authored by God that is changing the way we perceive and 'do' church.

Wherever church government is mingled with ambition, we find leaders who value members primarily for how they contribute to the church's vision.

To be part of the company who help bring about a kingdom church revolution, our hearts must not only align with the priorities in God's heart; we must become those who build what God is building.

Church leadership has often used its positional authority to control believers who have expressed a desire for more individual freedom within the church. Because we haven't known what to do with individuals who are strong in their expression and who have a high view of their individual authority in Christ, we have over-preached collective Christianity.

Jesus died (was murdered) not as a divine sacrifice but because he threatened both "church" and "state." He threatened religion by making it superfluous. He pointed to the one-ness that already exists between the divine and the material worlds (us). Temple structures and priesthoods that perpetuate a "separated universe" need to remember this.

The Church of England is the only church in the world that interferes neither with your politics nor your religion

The party to which he belonged had, as he knew, endeavoured to avoid the subject of the disendowment of the Church of England. It is the necessary nature of a political party in this country to avoid, as long as it can be avoided, the consideration of any question which involves a great change.

Then Mrs. Grantly, working hard in her vocation as a peacemaker, changed the conversation again, and began to talk of the American war. But even that was made matter of discord on church matters, — the archdeacon professing an opinion that the Southerners were Christian gentlemen, and the Northerners infidel snobs; whereas Mrs. Proudie had an idea that the Gospel was preached with genuine zeal in the Northern States.

The night was bright with stars, but there was no moon in the heavens, and the gloom of the ivy-coloured church tower was complete. But all the outlines of the place were so well known to him that he could trace them all in the dim light.

We used," he said, "to endeavour to get someone to represent us in Parliament, who would agree with us on vital subjects, such as the Church of England and the necessity of religion. Now it seems to be considered ill-mannered to make any allusion to such subjects!

Dr Grantly would be ready enough to take up his cudgel against all comers on behalf of the church militant, but he would do so on the distasteful ground of the church's infallibility. Such a contest would give no comfort to Mr Harding's doubts. He was not so anxious to prove himself right, as to be so.