Quotes about Church

The greatest single reason for [the] Christian church's failure . . . is its failure to combat racism.

They are hypocrites, they think the Church is a cage to keep God in, so he will stay locked up there and not go wandering about the earth during the week, poking his nose into their business, and looking in the depths and darkness and doubleness of their hearts, and their lack of true charity; and they believed they need only be bothered about him on Sundays when they have their best clothes on and their faces straight, and their hands washed and their gloves on, and their stories all prepared.

Joy and thanksgiving expressed in prayer and praise according to the Word of God are the heart of the Church's worship.

A time will come when instead of shepherds feeding the sheep, the church will have clowns entertaining the goats

When the church finds its members falling into gross and scandalous sins, then it is time for the church to awake and cry to God for a Revival of Religion.

The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.

It's time for a new Reformation in the Church--to call the Church back to the authority of the Word of God, beginning in Genesis.

There is a pile of dead bodies behind the Mars Hill bus, and by God's grace, it'll be a mountain by the time we're done.

Teenagers who do not go to church are adored by God, but they don't get to meet some of the people who love God back.

Various people at her church kept saying that she could be happy because she was going home to be with Jesus. This is the sort of thing that gives Christians a bad name. This, and the Inquisition. Sue wanted to open fire on them all. I think I encouraged this.

What I think we as the church lack, though, is a place to talk about how things really are now. In our desire to be an inspiration to one another we often veil what is true, because what is true is not always inspirational. But hurting believers whose lives are in tatters often need real help. If we were able to put aside our need for approval long enough to be authentic, then, surely, we would be living as the church.

The church must share in the secular problems of ordinary human life, not dominating, but helping and serving.