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We must understand that the local church isn't a country club or a casual self-help group. It is God's holy temple, a congregation of redeemed saints and priests who are consecrated to God. It is God's lighthouse in a dark world. It is the pillar and support of the truth.
Church is the textured context in which we grow up in Christ to maturity. But church is difficult. Sooner or later, though, if we are serious about growing up in Christ, we have to deal with church. I say sooner.
I like church. It's empty when I go. I walk around. There are so many beautiful Catholic churches in New York.
During the ten years I lived in the U.K., I frequently attended an Anglican church just outside of London. I enjoyed the energetic singing and the thoughtful homilies. And yet, I found it easy to be a pew warmer, a consumer, a back row critic.
I don't go to church so much, the way my life is, but it's in me every day.
The church has given me balance.
Today's churchless adults are not remarkably less favorable toward churches in their community; if anything, there is simply a growing "yawn,
The Lord called me to plant a church.
I'm Presbyterian and I don't go to church very much.
Church should be enjoyed, not endured.
Now the church is not wood and stone, but the company of people who believe in Christ.
The Church is the dwelling place of God in the Person of the Holy Ghost.
Where the Church thrives, people are blessed and progress is evident. Where there is no Church, people feed their babies to crocodiles and roam naked in the jungles.
God gave us the church to arm us with help and strength
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.
it's the closest thing I have to church.
The Church is not an enforcer of rules, but an outpost of grace
My church wasn't confined to the inside of a building. I carried it around with me everywhere I went.
Church should be a place where love is evident, God delivers, lives are changed, hearts are healed, and families restored.
Surely you know that if a man can't be cured of churchgoing, the next best thing is to send him all over the neighbourhood looking for the church that "suits" him until he becomes a taster or connoisseur of churches.
Obviously I don't really go to church any more - no time.
In fact, my parents were church people; my father was a deacon in the church.
Pastor Kerney Thomas to these hoes.. miwacles.
The church is in the hope business.
A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
In my growing-up years in Germany, I attended church in many different locations and circumstances - in humble back rooms, in impressive villas, and in very functional modern chapels.
The church's final word is not 'church' but the glory of the Father and the Son in the Spirit of liberty
Church isn't some community you join or some place you arrive. Church is what happens when someone taps you on the shoulder and whispers in your ear, Pay attention, this is holy ground; God is here.
I attend the greatest of all Churches. I put a capital N on Nature, and call it my Church.
We're not church planters. We are community planters and, as we work in our communities, we join local churches.
Churchgoers are like coals in a fire. When they cling together, they keep the flame aglow; when they separate, they die out.
The church is God's elect that God wants to raise in the country to give hope to everyone
Over the road there was a church: a modern gray building, which constantly played a recording of church bells. Strange it was. Why no proper bells? I never went in but I bet it was a robot church for androids, where the Bible was in binary and their Jesus had laser eyes and metal claws.
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
When I look back at the church I grew up in, I realise that nothing about its behaviour was very Christian. It was just a social club on Sundays where people would meet up with their mates.
in the closet to grab a Sunday school
If the Church of England were to fail, it would be found in my parish
If you're a preacher's kid, you see the church differently.
Christian kingdom
There are a surprising number who get their spiritual uplift week by week only from the comfort of their own living rooms or from their computers. They never go to church. Well, they "go" to church but do so in their own way.
A Christian without a church is like a bee without a hive.
Dear brothers and sisters, the Church loves you! Be an active presence in the community, as living cells, as living stones.
A church is not a church when the passion for souls is gone.
The church is more than a bundle of ideals, as these younger fellows seem to believe. It's more than a spiritual Boy Scout troop. The church is a Force ... and one does not set a Force in motion lightly.
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
If you're not looking forward to church this morning perhaps it's time to look for a church.
You are an enemy of the Church, Lee Scoresby. By their fruits shall ye know them.
The church is a house of prayer for all nations
When God measures a church, He begins with its depth not its breadth, with its substance not its style.
Church was a requirement - there was no choice in the matter; so was vacation bible school. Gospel has been in me since I was a kid.
Holy church-that mother who is also a queen because she is a king's bride.
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.
If you love god, burn a church.
The church is not the way to heaven; the church is the sign that points to heaven.
The Church is not the building, its the people, its not just the gathering, its also the scattering ...
An unholy church! it is useless to the world, and of no esteem among men. It is an abomination, hell's laughter, heaven's abhorrence. The worst evils which have ever come upon the world have been brought upon her by an unholy church.
The word church as applied to the Christian society was first used by Jesus Himself when He told Peter, "Upon this rock I will build my church" [Matthew 16:18]. He is the foundation of all Christian experience.
The true church lives and moves and has its being in prayer.
God's church is not a stage for us to perform on but a garden for us to grow in.
What is a godly pastor, after all, but one who is like God, with a heart of grace; someone who sees God bringing prodigals home and runs to embrace them, weeps for joy that they have been brought home, and kisses them - asking no questions - no qualifications or conditions required?
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.
Only the church can provide people with quality fellowship
You can't have Christ without the Church,
The local church is the outcrop of the church universal.
I'm evangelical.
A church is a soul-saving company or it is nothing.
Art, that great undogmatized church.
A church that likes power likes prayer.
I think of the church often. Not because religion was closing in on me, but because for a long time my ass was sore from that hard, unupholstered pew.
I don't have to go to church. The church is within me and the experience is my own. It's my life experience.
God bless the Methodist Church - bless all the churches - and blessed be God, Who, in this our great trial, giveth us the churches.
The Church, like her head, has a glory, but it is concealed from carnal eyes, for the time of her breaking forth in all her splendour is not yet come.
I like going to Church for aesthetic reasons, rather than spiritual ones.
Cheap grace is the mortal enemy of the church
A ballpark at night is more like a church than a church
I prefer a church which is bruised, hurting and dirty because it has been out on the streets, rather than a church which is unhealthy from being confined and from clinging to its own security.
I like Church furniture.
For where the church is, there is the Spirit of God, and where the Spirit of God, there is the church and all grace.
The church doesn't belong to the pastor; it belongs to Jesus Christ.
Religious Cult: The church down the street from yours.
Church words are easy to say, but they're not so easy to live by.
Church is a school for sinners, not a club of saints.
When the kingdom leaves the church, the church stops living for herself
Church is a place where you get to practice what it means to be human.
There is no one true church.
My church is in the detention facilities where I preside and celebrate the Eucharist. To me that's the church. That's the people of God.
My response is that I love the church.
I put up with this church, in the hope that one day it will become better, just as it is constrained to put up with me in the hope that I will become better.
I have come to understand church as this: the presence of Jesus among His people called out as a spiritual family to pursue His mission on this planet.
The true Church is not an institution to be kept apart from the world because the world "is common and unclean," but a vital heart of truth and love, beating with the life of Jesus, and sending abroad its sanctifying pulsations until nothing shall be common and unclean.
Although churches seem the most natural space to perform spiritual awakening, the disconcerting reality is that many people in Western society see churches more as museums of religion than sacred stages that dramatize the movement of God's spirit.
We have so many churches these days that instead of reaching the unchurched are unchurching the churched"
~ Dr. Michael Horton
The Christian church was born in song.
Went to church but don't understand it, they underhanded. God gave me these commandments, the world is scandalous.
Miz Louisa, she believed in God with all her soul. But she don't subscribe to church much. She say the way some folk run they's churches, it take God right out cha heart.' - Eugene Randall
The Church should be the place where a word reverberates right into the world.
To be of no Church is dangerous.
This is a church of tenderness and arrogance, of sparkling differences and human failings. There is no unmixing the two.
I was immersed in comfortable Christianity. Years ago, I found myself living what seemed like the American church dream - pastoring a large church, living in a large house, and surrounded by all the comforts this world has to offer. But inside I had a sinking feeling that I was missing the point.
Let us not forget: we are a pilgrim church, subject to misunderstanding, to persecution, but a church that walks serene, because it bears the force of love.
Strong families make strong churches.