The Church Quotes

Why does it seem that the church is more interested in people involvement rather than people engagement.

Before I was ordained, when I was working for the council, I thought of the first three months of the year as January, February, March. Now I think of them as Epiphany, Candlemas and Ash Wednesday.

My double drags his coffin, humble slave, I, at least, am real, though changed to flesh.Far-off, I build me a church no hand can shape("Winter Sonnets: III")

The Christians of today are so unsubmissive to the leadership of the church, this is unbiblical.

Like the hub of a wheel, the church’s corporate life is an extension of the good news that God was in Christ reconciling the whole world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them.

The Church, as Jesus seems to be defining it, is the gathering of accepted brokenness. It’s not the gathering of the saved.

A preacher shouldn't preach just to make you feel good. Then it's about the money not about the teach. He should preach the truth because the truth shall set you free.

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

There's not enough wrong with it to leave and there's just enough wrong with it to stay, " Matthew later told me. "Fight to change it.

The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow of the earth on the moon and I have more faith in the Shadow than in the Church.

The problem is not a lack of churches, but a lack of true ministers, and believers that really are followers of Christ.

The mission of the church is to make the world a holy place.

I cried out at the sudden visitation of pain, everyone in a silent church standing in a rustle of suits and dresses to bend back their longest fingernail.

If the good news is an invitation to a Jesus way of life and not information about somebody who accomplished something on my behalf, I’m sunk. This is law and no gospel.

Open-handed generosity and caring for the poor and marginalized as if we were caring for Jesus himself are extensions of our worship.

This [egalitarianism vs complementarianism] is not an issue of chauvinism or discrimination. It is an issue of Biblical interpretation.

I walk into so many places where Christians are gathered and I get all excited, only to find that the fellowship among these Believers is dead! There is no openness, no authenticity.

Whenever a group of people who are designed to primarily unite around one thing try to unite around something else, the result is devastating for all.

This is a paradox of Whitefield's legacy: evangelicalism draws people of different churches while dividing those within the same denomination.

If you life is an example of glorifying God, others won't see your good works and glorify YOU, because they'll know what you are doing is for God's glory.

If your motive is in any way to promote greatness for yourself, you're in the wrong calling.

Sir, I cannot sing. I have no formal training. I do not read music. And I know this is a church - but I play a mean harmonica.

As long as the focus is on God the style of the music is irrelevant.

...ask yourself, "Who's getting the glory in this ministry?" You see, if we do ministry OUR way, it won't be for His glory, because our ways are not His ways.

Without vision, a church devolves into a lukewarm, aimless organization characterized by infighting, budget grabbing and a dead heart for the lost.

There may be no English word as bent and broken by casual misuse, or drained of blood by idealizing admirers and apologists, or grossly caricatured by huckstering detractors, as church.

Referring to the church as a building is like referring to people as two-by-fours.

Roman Catholicism is a broken and utterly desperate thing, capable only of malignant mischief in our awakening world.

It was Sunday morning, and old people passed me like sad grey waves on their way to church.

The Church is going to have to recognise that secularisation is not the cause of their decline, it is the result of it.

The ministry found in the corners of one's life should match the ministry that is put on display.

Dear God, save us from The Church!

If Christ is the head of the church and we are the body, lets be disciples who master the noise.

An institution theoretically devoted to providing comfort to those in need (the church) is in trouble because it has embraced the same pressure cooker we find everywhere else.

Here is a very simple and trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance: If it's not about Christ, it's not Christianity.

A piece of paper doesn't make you a pastor any more than making predictions makes you a prophet.

We get called dishonoring for pointing out the garbage in the church, yet nobody ever seems to think it's dishonoring that somebody put the garbage there in the first place.

Between Monday and Saturday men make an audience. On Sunday, they make a congregation.

Somewhere along the line, "Church" became a weekly event rather than a gathering of people who did life together.

A worshipping Church or a prayer group is a magnet that draws the Lord and His people to connect with each other!

The church that weds itself to modernity is already a widow within postmodernity.

They like to use those fancy words. They don't like to say “raped, '” he said. “They say “misdeed, ' “inappropriate touching, ' “mistake.' That's insulting. I'm not a mistake.

It's a wonder Hell don't open up and swallow her as the highlight of the service.

We were so created to worship God that it is probably embedded in our spiritual DNA itself!

Speak it till you reach it!

Your religion is not what you do on Sunday. It is how you live Monday through Saturday.

Immorality is the word we use to describe people that are not sinning the same way we are.

Persecution is an enemy the Church has met and mastered many times. Indifference could prove to be a far more dangerous foe.

Church wasn't designed by an architect (Technically, Jesus was a carpenter.). So why do we think of churches as buildings instead of groups of people who love Jesus?

Too many Christians reverse New Covenant commands as we seek, through condemnation of the world, the return of the never-existent, demonic myth of the "Christian Nation"!