Quotes About Church

The Church would impoverish Herself to the degree that She refused to tap this richness.

If you want to understand why the church is so enthralled with Israel, you need to understand that the church is waiting, with bated breath, for these things the prophets have declared to at last come to pass. Many in the church understand that God has tied himself to Israel, and will renew that tie in the days to come.

Hence, when we are told that Christ appeared in the fulness of time, the fact of which we are mainly assured is, that all was done which was properly required for bringing the Church, whether as to her internal state or to her relations to the world, into a measure of preparedness for the time of His appearing.

Inasmuch as the history of salvation is a unified reality—stretching from the far reaches of biblical history through the life of God's People in both testaments, and extending even to the event of the Lord's Second Coming—the Church has consistently believed, from the time of the Apostles, that the Old Testament Scriptures continue to function as our "instructor unto Christ" (Gal. 3:24).

we don't begin with the Old Testament; we begin with Christ. Christ is not only the Mediator between God and man; He is also the Mediator between the Old Testament and the Church.

Through Christ, their history becomes our history; we are engrafted into the Bible's ongoing chronology. The Hebrew Scriptures become our own family narrative. The history of the Bible and the history of the Church form a single story, of which our lives—and our worship—are an integral part.

Baptism is the sacramental doorway into the Church established by Jesus Christ. It removes our innate condition of original sin, washes away all actual sin and their effects, infuses sanctifying grace, illuminates with God's own presence, and incorporates the one baptized into the Body of Christ.

Is there any way we can get society right if we don't first get the church right? If that is true, then is there any way we can get the church right if we don't first get families right? If that is true, is there any way we can get families right, if we don't first get marriages right? And if that is true, is there any way we can get marriages right if we don't get men right?

Manchee and me are quiet as possible going past the front door of the Church. Praying Noise comes from inside, it's got a special feel to it, a special purply sick feel like men are bleeding it out, even tho it's always the same stuff but the purply blood just keeps on coming. Help us, save us, forgive us, help us, save us, forgive us, get us outta here, please, God, please, God, please, God, tho as far as I know no one's never heard no Noise back from this God fella.

It felt exactly like someone had hit me in the head with a church.

My parents were never really married, by which I mean they never bothered making their relationship official with any church. I'm not embarrassed by the fact. They considered themselves married and didn't see much point in announcing it to any government or God. I respect that. In truth, they seemed more content and faithful than many officially married couples I have seen since.

My parents were never really married, by which I mean they never bothered making their relationship official with any church. I'm not embarrassed by the fact. They considered themselves married and didn't see much point in announcing it to any government or God. I respect that. In truth, they seemed more content and faithful than many officially married couples I have seen since. Our

Unfortunately, Felurian wasn't the mine of information I'd hoped. She knew stories of the Amyr, but they were thousands of years old. When I asked her about the more recent Amyr, asking about church knights and the Ciridae with their bloody tattoos, she merely laughed. "there were never any human amyr," she said, dismissing the idea out of hand. "those you speak of sound like children dressing in their parents' clothes.

Later he would say that the Church led him to God, and LSD led him to universe. He also said that art led him to the devil, and sex kept him with the devil.

The priest had been kind but could not draw her out. Instead she chose to tell her story in the greater church, the green cathedral that is nature. For nature too is holy, more holy than the icons, more holy than the relics of saints. These were dead things compared to the most insignificant living thing. The fox knows this, and the deer, and the pine.

He didn't have a religious or pious relationship with the church; it was aesthetic. The thrill of the battle between good and evil attracted him, perhaps because it mirrored his interior conflict, and revealed a line that he might yet need to cross.' p.16

The ancient church teaches us that the church sustains three relationships to culture all at once: It is part of it; it is an antithesis to it; it is called to transform it. These relationships are always held in tension with culture.

The "business as usual" agency has a board made up of white, middle-aged or older males working with a "from us to them" attitude. The "business as usual" church supports crosscultural missionaries, but these folks are all the same culture and ethnicity of the majority of the members of the church.

The rich-poor gap challenges our commitment to incarnational living. We will need to adapt simpler lifestyles before we go, to live with diminished material expectations in an effort to increase incarnational effectiveness. And the entire church, so accustomed to spending huge sums on their own comforts and conveniences, must be reawakened to increased generosity and sacrifice.32

In the spirit of reciprocity, our church began receiving teams and leaders from the Moldovan church as long ago as 1991. In sharp contrast to the Moldovan pattern-and I say this to my own shame, as I helped shape the relationship-it was many years before a Moldovan pastor preached from our pulpit.

When we engage with people from the Majority World church, many of whose lives are characterized by hardship and suffering, they ask us, not unlike Thomas asked of Jesus, "Show us your scars, and then we'll believe that you understand the same gospel that we've embraced.

1.Does the church in America have a prophetic role in its own society, or does it simply mimic the culture and entertain its members?

2.Does the church in America have the humility to learn from us, or do they consider themselves to be the world's teacher? 3.Does the American church have the magnanimous spirit to work alongside us in genuine partnership that is based upon mutual respect and shared resources, or do they simply see us as their "partners" to fulfill their plans in our countries?

We went to the conference expecting to hear how the church in North America was leading the global church into the new millennium. In contrast, we left the conference praying, "Lord, please don't leave the church in North America behind as you move powerfully into the world.