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Between Monday and Saturday men make an audience. On Sunday, they make a congregation.
Legalists and theological experts with "lips close to God and hearts far away from him" (Isa. 29:13). The world hardly needs more of these.
Pastors spend a good bit of time helping people with their sin. Who helps them with their sin?
Some goes to church to seek prosperity
The church is God saying: 'I'm throwing a banquet, and all these mismatched, messed-up people are invited. Here, have some wine.
Ah, my friend, that is the only true church organization, when heads and hearts unite in working for the welfare of the human race!
There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief.
For church buildings not to be enough is to build and equip church members to send them out
The church is like manure. Pile it up, and it stinks up the neighborhood. Spread it out, and it enriches the world.
Good churches are not built by bad men; at least, there must be probity and enthusiasm somewhere in the society. These minsters were neither built nor filled by atheists.
I'm from the church, my dad was a pastor's kid.
Now the church is not wood and stone, but the company of people who believe in Christ.
The Church is the Church only when it exists for others ... not dominating, but helping and serving. It must tell men of every calling what it means to live for Christ, to exist for others.
Every congregation is a congregation of sinners. As if that weren't bad enough, they all have sinners for pastors.
Deity indwelling men! That, I say is Christianity!
Thieves, Heretics, and Whores
Religious Cult: The church down the street from yours.
People no longer need to go to church to hear the Word, which has been the selling point for local churches for the past fifty years. Because of this, church is becoming less of a possessor of knowledge (commodity) and more a communal hub.
To lift the authority of the church up is for nations to come to church
The church is the gathering of God's children, where they can be helped and fed like babies and then guided by her motherly care, grow up to manhood in maturity of faith.
Churchmen, eh? Love one minute, forgiveness the next, and then it's eternity on fire.
The church is a sort of hospital for men's souls and as full of quackery as the hospital for their bodies.
I always refer to the Lutherans first.
Megachurches. I can't be the only one frightened when our houses of worship sound like they could take on Godzilla.
Church hoppers are like wandering dogs. If they are not regularly patted on the head, they will go elsewhere until they are.
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.
As burned as I've been by local churches and by people who call themselves in God's name, Jesus gave us the church. It's supposed to be a community of like-minded people who encourage and strengthen each other. But that's not how it always works.
Everybody's talking about ministers, sinisters, banisters, and canisters, bishops, fishops, rabbis, and popeyes, bye-bye, bye-byes.
Today, we need a Church capable of walking at people's side, of doing more than simply listening to them; a Church which accompanies them on their journey ...
This is what the Church is said to want, not party men, but sensible, temperate, sober, well-judging persons, to guide it through the channel of no-meaning, between the Scylla and Charybdis of Aye and no.
Today's churchless adults are not remarkably less favorable toward churches in their community; if anything, there is simply a growing "yawn,
The church does not exist for us. We are the church, and we exist for the world.
The Church today is more likely to alienate than to seduce ...
We want the Church to be small not only that fewer men may know the Enemy but also that those who do may acquire the uneasy intensity and the defensive self-righteousness of a secret society or a clique.
Church members are either pillars or caterpillars. The pillars hold up the church, and the caterpillars just crawl in and out.
The church represents the people of God who are the real power of any nation
The Shepherds and the Angels
Regular church attenders tend to come to our places of worship to feel better, not to be hit with the unfamiliar, the uncomfortable, the threatening.
The church belongs to its hierarchy, which is men in power. Those outside the hierarchy, and especially women, are at best only renters and at worst squatters in religious territory.
We have so many churches these days that instead of reaching the unchurched are unchurching the churched"
~ Dr. Michael Horton
The church needs lifers and those who can be counted on for the long haul.
Churches are just clubs for people who like to join things.
[B]eing the member of the church means belonging to a messed-up group, an untidy gathering of people like you or me who continually fail to live up to the ideal. But we keep coming just for that reason; we need the help and forgiveness that flow from the offering of Christ.
There is nothing like the local church when the local church is working right.
There is nothing more pitiable than a soulless, sapless, shriveled church, seeking to thrive in a worldly atmosphere, rooted in barren professions, bearing no fruit, and maintaining only the semblance of existence; such a church cannot long survive.
The problem with the church is the church
Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.
Men of Science. If they are worthy of the name they are indeed about God's path and about his bed and spying out all his ways.
What right have such men to represent Christianity - as if it were an institution for getting up idiots genteelly?
The Church is not an enforcer of rules, but an outpost of grace
A growing church sees that the work of the ministry should be done by all
I was raised in the church.
The Church at its best is about empowering the disempowered and giving voice to the dispossessed and not putting a price on everything and not being about the bottom line and not worshipping the market or everything that is material.
But rarely do you hear a church described, first and foremost, by the character, power, and content of its preaching. This is because few preachers today are true servants of the Word.
There was a beautiful church where I lived in Navan, taught by the Christian brothers: fierce, angry men, repressed.
the church, but in memory I go and stand
Strong families make strong churches.
People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.
Circular Letter to My Friends in Italy
I been saying it for years: church is full of sneaky men posing as honest souls, and they are perpetuators our here looking for women just like you, with giant holes in your hearts, and they can smell when you got a good job and when you lonely as hell.
We're not church planters. We are community planters and, as we work in our communities, we join local churches.
The church is a house of prayer for all nations
Church is not for spectators.
The Church is the one institution that exists for those outside it.
As I say, it never ceases to amaze me how gullible some of our Church members are ... "
Admonitions for the Priesthood of God", Ensign, Jan 1973
They spend their lives fighting against priests and then give prayerbooks as gifts.
There are no small churches, just small people.
The evangelicals ... If all they want is gold Cadillacs and sex and so on, no big problem.
All people and each individual man is called to come into the Church.
On day one, the Church wasn't for church people because there weren't any church people.
It is a pity that we cannot persuade all ministers to be men, for it is hard to see how other was they can be truly men of God.
The church is not a campus but a community. Pastors are not CEOs; they are shepherds.
The church is a storehouse of spiritual food whereby the inner man is fed, nourished, and developed into maturity. If it fails, it is not fulfilling its purpose as a church.
In fact, my parents were church people; my father was a deacon in the church.
The apostles were moved, not so much by an intellectual apprehension, as by a spiritual illumination. They met men, and the need of those men whom they met cried aloud to them.
Now ministers meet their people in order to enlighten and awaken the consciences of sinners:
These guys [the Catholic church] make Enron look like altar boys.
The point of church isn't to get people to come to church." "No?" said Steve, cocking an eyebrow. "What is it?" It seemed obvious to me. "to feed them, so they can go out and, you know, be Jesus." Take this Bread, A Radical Conversion by Sara Miles
A church must grow larger and smaller at the same time. Larger through worship and smaller through small groups.
A church that lives by power dies by power.
Those who turn against the Church do so to play to their own private gallery, but when, one day, the applause has died down and the cheering has stopped, they will face a smaller audience, the judgment bar of God.
The laity are called to become a leaven of Christian living within society.
The clergy, no less than the capitalist class, lives on the backs of the people, profits from the degradation, the ignorance and the oppression of the people.
One finds both good men and bad in the Church. By our fruits we will be known, not by what name we have called ourselves. I have come to believe that there is more grace in becoming wheat then there is in pulling up weeds.
The church is to help its members mature in Christ's calling
Persecution shows who is a hireling, and who a true pastor.
The world wants the church to add a dainty spiritual touch to its carnal schemes, and to be there to help it to its feet and put it to bed when it comes home drunk with fleshly pleasures.
The church is God's remnant in a country, able to change the life of the nation
Probably the greatest need in the Church today is a body of men who are absolutely devoted, every selfish purpose and plan given up, to the one great end of magnifying the Lord Jesus Christ in the midst of the nation.
That older and greater church to which I belong: the church where the oftener you laugh the better, because by laughter only can you destroy evil without malice
The most useful members of a church are usually those who would be doing harm if they were not doing good.
We must re-grasp the idea of church membership as being the membership of the body of Christ and as the biggest honour which can come man's way in this world.
A churchless community, a community where men have abandoned and scoffed at or ignored their religious needs, is a community on the rapid downgrade.
I always say that as church falls into demise, we still have the inclination to congregate whether by a night of music or a festival, or just sitting down to listen to some vinyl ...
Only the church can provide people with quality fellowship
I like the church, I like a cowl,
I love a prophet of the soul;
And on my heart monastic aisles
Fall like sweet strains or pensive smiles;
Yet not for all his faith can see,
Would I that cowled churchman be.
The church of Jesus Christ ought to be the last people to fall for hucksters and demagogues. After all, the church bears the Spirit of God, who gifts the Body with discernment and wisdom. But too often we do.
People are leaving the church and going back to God.
A lot of people are using the Church, but not a lot of people are loving the Church.
Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
For every family of the pious ought to be a church.