Quotes of: Church Keyword

I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. . All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christ...

The Age of Reason

Church leaders raised on rationalism lead ministries where the supernatural, the Vertical, is suppressed and where God Himself is at best an observer and certainly seldom, if ever, and obvious participant in church.

Vertical Church: What Every Heart Longs for. What Every Church Can Be.

All Church power arises from the indwelling of the Spirit; therefore those in whom the Spirit dwells are the seat of Church power. But the Spirit dwells in the whole Church, and therefore the whole Church is the seat of Church power.

Charles Hodge

Let God Himself be the main attraction at church again, and let us be tireless in our insistence that church is for God, about God, through God, and to the glory of His great Son.

Vertical Church: What Every Heart Longs for. What Every Church Can Be.

The purpose of the local church is not primarily to be one's church home or extended family, though it can be at times. And it is not to survive by obtaining more people for its support base. Its purpose is to invite people to be part of the true mis...

Peter L. Steinke

The Westboro Baptist Church is no more a church than Church's Fried Chicken is a church.

Jon Stewart

the Twelve Apostles are the most evident sign of Jesus' will regarding the existence and mission of his Church, the guarantee that between Christ and the Church there is no opposition: despite the sins of the people who make up the Church, they are i...

The Apostles: The Origin of the Church and Their Co-Workers

The entity God created to traffic His transcendence has fallen far from its mission when it chooses instead to traffic what can be found on any street corner or at the local mall. You may ask, "But how has the church done that?" * By offering secular...

Vertical Church: What Every Heart Longs for. What Every Church Can Be.

In a society where rationality has ruled so long, the church frequently fails to see that in forsaking the weekly pursuit of the transcendent, we have given up the only ground that was uniquely ours in this world. In attempting to make the church som...

Vertical Church: What Every Heart Longs for. What Every Church Can Be.

The Church is full of Hypocrites!" Yes, it is, and thank God for that, it means the church is doing its job. The church wants hypocrites, adulterers, thieves, and more, for the church is where we receive healing. To condemn the church because it has ...

Lee Goff

Only is a powerful word. It is extreme. It picks a fight. It draws a line in the sand.

Limited Church: Unlimited Kingdom: Uniting Church and Family in the Great Commission

The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.

Samora Machel

In addition to the transience of their members, churches themselves face a crisis of hypermobility. Many churches have put down only shallow roots in their neighborhood, or no roots at all. We’ve all heard the question, “If our church suddenly mo...

Slow Church: Cultivating Community in the Patient Way of Jesus

Most of the church landscape in my lifetime has been heavily invested in trying to do something for Jerry or Sherri or some other icon of unchurchness. The problem is that they have been only about themselves from the moment they could wail for their...

Vertical Church: What Every Heart Longs for. What Every Church Can Be.

I'm afraid the SS's relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny.

Christopher Hitchens

Bombs have kill-radiuses; churches should have love-radiuses--anyone within twenty miles of a church should know it.

Zombie Church: Breathing Life Back Into the Body of Christ

I was not in the church, but we claim, like so many people, 'Yeah, I grew up in the church.' Well yeah, I grew up in the church and went to church, but I knew nothing about the Lord. I had no idea what it meant about walking in faith.

Lou Brock

Everyone related to me in my circle was from church: church friends, church school, church activities. All my friends weren't allowed to watch MTV or go to PG-13 movies or listen to the radio, so I didn't really know anything different. That's how I ...

Katy Perry

The church is missionary by nature because God through the Spirit calls, creates, and commissions the church to communicate to the world that the redemptive reign of God has broken into human history.

The Essence of the Church: A Community Created by the Spirit

A legalist is not someone who places divine law above all else. A legalist is someone who places human law above all else.

Limited Church: Unlimited Kingdom: Uniting Church and Family in the Great Commission

Church History is the record of God's gracious, wonderful and mighty deeds, showing how by his Spirit and Word he rules his Church and conquers the world.

Life Pictures from Swedish Church History