Quotes About Church

The true well-being of the church: when she cannot count on anything anymore but God's promises. -Johannes Hoekendijk

Live secure in Christ, rather than trying to protect your position in the church. We need to change our values as leaders. If we're not willing to give away our positions to others by equipping them for the work of service, we don't deserve the positions we have. Our identity and security are to be in Christ, not in a title or role in a religious organization.

Another claims, "Every Christian is a church planter, every home is a church, and every church building is a training center.

Can the church stop its puny, hack dreams of trying to "make a difference in the world" and start dreaming God-sized dreams of making the world different? Can the church invent and prevent, redeem and redream, this postmodern future? -Leonard Sweet (Soul Tsunami)

Missiologist Dr. Stuart Murray identified seven transitions that mark a shift from Christendom to a post-Christendom culture that the church has to come to terms with: from the center to the margins, from majority to minority, from settlers to sojourners, from privilege to plurality, from control to witness, from maintenance to mission, and from institution to movement.

In his book 9 Marks of a Healthy Church Mark Dever concluded, "The local church is God's evangelism plan. The local church is God's evangelism program.

Any church wishing to rediscover the dynamic nature of the early church should consider planting new churches.

wooden pews for worship services.

In the Afrikaner's worldview, apartheid and the church went hand in hand.

My first marriage was very traditional, in the church, and then we left the church and went to the reception hall. So this time, I'd like to go fairy tale all the way.

The church, with its eternal call for submissive trust and blind obedience

They decided not to touch the quarter-million dollars in the GoFundMe account, aside from 10 percent that they would give to their church as a tithe. The rest went into a new Tanitoluwa Adewumi Foundation to be used to help struggling immigrants like the ones

I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.

Church of the living God! Be warned. Please not thyself, even as Jesus pleased not Himself. Live for Him, not for thyself, for Him not for the world. Walk worthy of thy name and calling, worthy of Him who bought thee as His bride, worthy of thine everlasting inheritance. HORATIUS BONAR

In the bosom of the Church today, 'integralists' are those who do not understand that Christianity needs a new theology, and 'progressives' are those who do not understand that the new theology must be Christian.

Our Lord Jesus Christ knows how many Devils there are in his church and who they are.

Kierkegaard was a Christian, though he hated the Danish Church and couldn't accept the way complacent Christians around him behaved. For him, religion was a heart-wrenching option, not a cosy excuse for a song in church.

Instálese en un rincón tranquilo, cerca de la iglesia y de la gente sencilla y buena: o si tiene grandes deseos de dejar descendencia, cásese con alguna muchacha pobre y buena. Olvídese de este mundo ruidoso y de todas sus lujosas tentaciones, y que él también lo olvide. En este mundo no hay consuelo. Ya lo ve usted: no hay más que enemigos, traiciones y pecados

Stop attending churches and be real Christians.

No seu primeiro domingo em Galesburg, o diretor e a Sra. Hammond o levaram à igreja presbiteriana, mas depois disso Xamã disse a eles que era congregacionista e, aos estudantes de religião, dizia que era presbiteriano, assim, todas as manhãs de domingo, ele podia passear livremente pela cidade.

According to her views," her niece later recalled, "little girls were to be taught to move very gently, to speak softly and prettily, to say 'yes, ma'am' and 'no, ma'am,' never to tear their clothes, to sew, to knit at regular hours, to go to church on Sunday and make all the responses, and to come home and be catechised." Harriet

We certainly get a more complete and well-rounded picture of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries — at court and in the church — if we bear in mind that music still had much of the character of a craft, and that especially in the court sphere it was marked by a very sharp social inequality between the art producer and the patron.

The most important fact to know about the Christian Church in the two hundred years after Jesus' death is that only at the end of this period did the Church comprise as many people as the far-flung Jewish community numbered (five million) in the Roman Empire. Christianity developed an intense rivalry with Judaism, and for many decades was compared to the Jews as a minority. This accounts for the intense anti-Semitism that became enshrined in Christianity by 200 A.D.

One can even buy a so-called Religion, which is really but common morality sanctified with flowers and music. Rob the Church of her accessories and what remains behind? Yet the trusts thrive marvelously, for the prices are absurdly cheap, -- a prayer for a ticket to heaven, a diploma for an honourable citizenship. Hide yourself under a bushel quickly, for if your real usefulness were known to the world you would soon be knocked down to the highest bidder by the public auctioneer.