Quotes about Church

The least likely person you'll see in church is a single twentysomething male. He is as rare at church as a vegan at a steak house.

Corporate worship is to be God-centered.

Corporate worship is to be intelligible.

Corporate worship is to be seeker sensible.

Corporate worship is to be orderly.

Corporate worship is to be missional.

The great call for the Church is to not just be concerned about right or wrong behavior, which is moral life, but about communion with God, which is mystical life.

The family unit is fundamental not only to society and to the Church, but to our hope for eternal life.

Human life is God's outer church. Its needs and urgencies are priests and pastors.

God is decreeing to begin some new and great period in His Church, even to the reforming of Reformation itself: what does He then but reveal Himself to His servants, and as His manner is, first to His Englishmen?

Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't. Worship is ultimate, not missions, because God is ultimate, not man. When this age is over, and the countless millions of the redeemed fall on their faces before the throne of God, missions will be no more. It is a temporary necessity. But worship abides forever.

Marriage is not mainly about prospering economically; it is mainly about displaying the covenant-keeping love between Christ and his church. Knowing Christ is more important than making a living. Treasuring Christ is more important than bearing children. Being united to Christ by faith is a greater source of marital success than perfect sex and double-income prosperity.