 The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones. Author: Henry Ward Beecher |
| A church in the land without the Spirit is rather a curse than a blessing. If you have not the Spirit of God, Christian worker, remember that you stand in somebody else's way; you are a fruitless tree standing where a fruitful tree might grow. Author: Charles Spurgeon |
Whenever God erects a house of prayer, the devil always builds a chapel there; And 'twill be found, upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation.
- Daniel Defoe Author: Assorted Authors |
| Each generation of the church in each setting has the responsibility of communicating the gospel in understandable terms, considering the language and thought-forms of that setting. Author: Francis Schaeffer |
| The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church. Author: G.K. Chesterton |
I spent twenty years of my life trying to recruit people out of local churches and into missions structures so that they could be involved in fulfilling God's global mission. Now I have another idea. Let's take God's global mission and put it right in the middle of the local church!
- George Miley Author: Assorted Authors |
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| Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't. Author: John Piper |
| We cannot believe that the church of God is already possessed of all that light which God intends to give it; nor that all Satan's lurking places have already been found out. Author: Jonathan Edwards |
| This much is sure in all churches, forgetting party labels; the smallest meeting numerically is the prayer-meeting. If weak in prayer we are weak everywhere. Author: Leonard Ravenhill |
| You never have to advertise a fire. Everyone comes running when there's a fire. Likewise, if your church is on fire, you will not have to advertise it. The community will already know it. Author: Leonard Ravenhill |
| When there's something in the Bible that churches don't like, they call it 'legalism.' Author: Leonard Ravenhill |
| Some women will spend thirty minutes to an hour preparing for church externally (putting on special clothes and makeup, etc.). What would happen if we all spent the same amount of time preparing internally for church - with prayer and meditation? Author: Leonard Ravenhill |
