Quotes about Church

Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't.

In the first case, we use our own power to make ourselves moral. In the second case, we use our own power to make the church moral. In the first case, we fail to rely on the power of God for our own sanctification. In the second case, we fail to rely on the power of God for the sanctification of others.

The apostle Paul calls the church to "adorn the doctrine of God" with the fidelity of our lives (Titus 2:10).

So in a phrase, preaching is expository exultation. In conclusion, then, the reason that preaching is so essential to the corporate worship of the church is that it is uniquely suited to feed both understanding and feeling. It is uniquely suited to waken seeing God and savoring God. God has ordained that the Word of God come in a form that teaches the mind and reaches the heart.

The popular God of fun-church is simply too small and too affable to hold a hurricane in his hand.

Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't.

Of all persecuted sects, the Baptists stand forth as most prominent, simply and only because they aim at a more complete and thorough reform than any others ever attempted. They teach that Christ's kingdom is not of this world; that the church is not a national, political, or provincial establishment; but a congregation of holy men, separated from the world by the receiving of the Holy Spirit.

The Bible knows nothing of solitary religion.

There is no such thing as a solitary Christian.

I have no objection to instruments of music in our worship, provided they are neither seen nor heard.

I pity those who can find no good at church. But how should they if prejudice come between, an effectual bar to the grace of God?

It was a common saying among the Christians in the primitive Church, "The soul and the body make a man; the spirit and discipline make a Christian;" implying, that none could be real Christians, without the help of Christian discipline. But if this be so, is it any wonder that we find so few Christians; for where is Christian discipline