I agree with the idea that there is a separation of church and state. That teachers should not be leading prayer - a particular kind of prayer in classrooms.
Then one day I read about a book that said that the church is the only army that shoots its wounded.
When I was little, my grandmother would take me to church with her, and she would introduce me to people.
I had given up the church, more because of its complicity with slavery than from a full understanding of the foolishness of its creeds.
Apologetics has an important place in the local church as we seek to influence our communities for Christ in an increasingly skeptical culture.
My church is the world! I want to bring the gospel to as broad and as interesting an audience as possible.
If you want to get healthy, you just might not want to go to a doctor. You might instead, go to church.
Some people in orthodox churches in Africa take poverty as a path that leads to heaven, making christianity look unattractive.
Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.
Compassion in evangelical churches is out of balance. When I talk about it, I get a lot of glazed expressions.
I think that a church should be setting the pace for social justice.
On the day, therefore, when I went to the church to be confirmed, with a number of others, I suffered extremely from the reproaches of my conscience.
My eyes are wide open to the conflicts within the Church, but I don't think you can call it schism.
The earlier practice of the Church had been more or less to employ in worship under the presidency of the pastor or pastors, the gifts of the congregation.
Meanwhile the Church more and more provided for the doctrine of the Holy Spirit, by practically chaining His influence to the hierarchy and the sacraments.
People sometimes ask me if it is a sin in the Church of Emacs to use vi. Using a free version of vi is not a sin; it is a penance. So happy hacking.
The more members of the clergy that are out there working to expand their congregations, the more people will go to church.
If my duty does involve heralding His law in every arena, then the Church in America is failing radically today.
The early Church had nothing but the Old Testament. The New Testament lies hidden in the Old; the Old Testament lies open in the New.
People feel that decisions about their jobs, the way their children are educated, how their church functions, and products they buy are made by someone and some place so distant that they can't find anybody to talk to that has any influence over them...
Nobody sees the obvious, nobody observes the ordinary. There are more miracles in a square yard of earth than in all the fables of the Church.
