Quotes about Church

Yes, I see the Church as the body of Christ. But, oh! How we have blemished and scarred that body through social neglect and through fear of being nonconformists.

You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing.

Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.

The task of the Church after Jesus' resurrection and ascension was to proclaim the forgiveness of sins to all nations.

We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.

When Christianity turns into a noun, it becomes a turnoff. Christianity was always intended to be a verb. And, more specifically, an action verb. The title of the book of Acts says it all, doesn't it? It's not the book of Ideas or Theories or Words. It's the book of Acts. If the twenty-first-century church said less and did more, maybe we would have the same kind of impact the first-century church did.

Too often the church complains about culture instead of creating it. The energy we spend on criticism is being stolen from creativity. It's sideways energy. We need fewer commentators and more innovators.

Local churches exist to display God's glory to the nations. We do that by fixing our eyes on the gospel of Jesus Christ, trusting him for salvation, and then loving one another with God's own holiness, unity, and love.

The preaching of the Word must be absolutely central. Sound, expositional preaching is often the fountainhead of growth in a church.

God created the church, we have said, so that it might increasingly reflect the character of God as it's been revealed in his Word. In keeping with the storyline of the entire Bible, then, church discipline is the act of excluding an individual who carelessly brings disrepute onto the gospel and shows no commitment to doing otherwise.

A healthy church is a congregation that increasingly reflects God's character as his character has been revealed in his Word.

the most basic level of commitment by a Christian to his church is surprisingly substantial.