Quotes of: Churches Keyword

Are we letting the world influence the church more than the church is affecting those in the world?

Betty S. Bender

The university system, a gift of Western civilization to the world, was developed by the Catholic Church.

Thomas E. Woods Jr.

God’s downward descent to us in grace reversed by our upward ascent in pragmatic enthusiasm, we are increasingly becoming a sheep without a Shepherd—and all in the name of mission. Instead of churching the unchurched, we are well on our way to ev...

Christless Christianity: The Alternative Gospel of the American Church

When introverts go to church, we crave sanctuary in every sense of the word, as we flee from the disorienting distractions of twenty-first-century life. We desire to escape from superficial relationships, trivial communications and the constant noise...

Introverts in the Church: Finding Our Place in an Extroverted Culture

His church is the old one at the edge of town, and I now realize why he's chosen to live here. The church is too far away for him to really help anyone, so this is the best place for him. It's everywhere, on all sides and angles. This is where the fa...

I Am the Messenger

If the church is to survive as a place where head and heart are equal partners in faith, then we will need to commit ourselves once again not to the worship of Christ, but to the imitation of Jesus. His invitation was not to believe, but to follow. (...

Saving Jesus from the Church: How to Stop Worshiping Christ and Start Following Jesus

Missional leaders not only feel the burden of God's mission but they also act on the burden and act upon it sacrificially. Leading a missional church is not for the faint of heart. It takes courage to push yourself beyond your comfort zone and to lea...

Next Steps For Leading a Missional Church

Church and family are both primary influences designed by God for a purpose and when they work together, they are orange. Both are systems comprised of imperfect people—that’s why God desires to use them as a platform to tell his story of restora...

The Think Orange: Imagine the Impact When Church and Family Collide...

If your church is not going to support the committed same-sex relationships of LGBT congregants, be honest about that. Bait-and-switch is deceptively un-Christ-like and serves to push gay and transgender believers farther away each time the deception...

Walking the Bridgeless Canyon: Repairing the Breach Between the Church and the LGBT Community

The author urges taking the pulse of the church outside our own neighborhood. More church attending Presbyterians in Ghana than Scotland, and while Western pastors beg to fill seats, some African pastors are asking people only to attend every second ...

What's So Great About Christianity

The problem that we are facing in the church today is that we have so many Christians who have made a decision to believe in Jesus but not a commitment to follow Him. We have people who are planning to, meaning to, trying to, wanting to, going to, we...

Zombie Church: Breathing Life Back Into the Body of Christ

The formula "the Church is the Body of Christ" thus states that the Eucharist, in which the Lord gives us his body, forever remains the place where the Church is generated, where the Lord himself never ceases to found her anew; in the Eucharist the C...

Pope Benedict XVI

The Bible is big in my teaching. It's a wonder the ACLU didn't get after me pretty good. I really kept thinking they would. I took my boys to church. I took my football team to church. I only did it two times a year. Before I signed a kid, I'd write ...

Bobby Bowden

I don't know how you feel, but I'm pretty sick of church people. You know what they ought to do with churches? Tax them. If holy people are so interested in politics, government, and public policy, let them pay the price of admission like everybody e...

George Carlin

Martin Luther King Jr.: Those who have gone before us say "no more"! No more! [church congregation repeats in unison] Martin Luther King Jr.: NO MORE! [church congregation again repeats him] Martin Luther King Jr.: That means protest! That means marc...

Selma

A good example is like a bell that calls many to church.

Danish

Tomorrow’s sun is on it’s way – a relentless sun, inscrutable like life.

The Devil's Church and Other Stories

Is it possible that I am not alone in believing that in the dispute between Galileo and the Church, the Church was right and the centre of man's universe is the earth?

Stephen Vizinczey

Love is bigger than everything.

Post-Traumatic Church Syndrome: A Memoir of Humor and Healing in 30 Religions

The truth is, the Devil's job is easy.

Zombie Church: Breathing Life Back Into the Body of Christ

Love only fails when we fail to love.

Zombie Church: Breathing Life Back Into the Body of Christ