Quotes About Churches

If all the other churches had followed the example of those who resisted, the government would have been confronted with a stalemate that might have forced a compromise. Instead, the state marched over us.

It is one of those nondenominational churches so busy not condemning anyone that it has little power to attract a steady congregation.

He's battling the Mayor, across some kind of sand-covered square in front of what looks like a chapel– And I get a sinking feeling of how many terrible things have happened to me and Todd in churches

There's a bunch od huge churchs clustered together, trying to blend in with all the family-themed restaurants, because salvation is as easy as chicken wings, I guess.

While the churches that focus on one locale and stay focused may report good outcomes, other churches may simply repeat the mistakes of North American missionaries of the past.

Our conversation revealed the differences between their paradigm and mine. They were sent by a U.S.-based ministry that defined "gospel-preaching churches" as non-Pentecostal and noncharismatic, male-led, emotionally quiet, hymn-singing and (implicitly) led by white missionaries. My paradigm was more along the lines of "go where God is going.

si la principal fuerza que impulsa el liderazgo en las iglesias locales de todo el mundo fuera el evangelio de Jesucristo, muchas de las cosas tristes que hemos visto en las vidas de los líderes y sus iglesias no habrían sucedido.

We adore You, Lord Jesus Christ, in all Your churches throughout the world, and we bless You, for through Your holy cross You have redeemed the world." ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI

One in five American children are living in poverty, and yet, according to the Barna Research Group, 'half of all adults did nothing at all in the past year to help a poor person' and 'few churches have a serious ministry to the poor.' With such crying needs and such self-absorption among God's people, surely things have never been worse.

Several congregations had received permission to build churches before Danzig Mennonites were permitted to do so. Thus, in the village of Montau in the vicinity of Kulm, Mennonites were allowed to build their first church in the Vistula valley as early as 1586.8

One issue that was treated gingerly was the acceptance of converts from other faiths into Mennonite churches. Officials of both the Catholic and Protestant churches repeatedly issued warnings forbidding their members to join Mennonite congregations and requested that city councils take steps to prevent this. Evidently, this issue remained a concern, for instances of intermarriage appear repeatedly in civil and church records.

Although help and counsel flowed both ways, recipients were not always ready to accept advice. In 1615 several churches in Royal Prussia wrote to Mennonites in the Netherlands and urged them to resolve divisions and disputes among themselves.30 Apparently the Dutch Mennonites were less than enthusiastic about the spiritual counseling received from Royal Prussia;

And he traveled through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the churches.

If anyone is inclined to dispute this, we have no other practice, nor do the churches of God.

Now about the collection for the saints, you are to do as I directed the churches of Galatia:

Now, brothers, we want you to know about the grace that God has given the churches of Macedonia.

Along with Titus we are sending the brother who is praised by all the churches for his work in the gospel.

In full view of the churches, then, show these men the proof of your love and the reason for our boasting about you.

Apart from these external trials, I face daily the pressure of my concern for all the churches.

and all the brothers with me, To the churches of Galatia:

I was personally unknown, however, to the churches of Judea that are in Christ.

John, To the seven churches in the province of Asia: Grace and peace to you from Him who is and was and is to come, and from the seven Spirits before His throne,

saying, “Write on a scroll what you see and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.”

This is the mystery of the seven stars you saw in My right hand and of the seven golden lampstands: The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.