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Sitting in a church doesn't make you a Christian any more than being in a doctor's office makes you a doctor. It's more than that. The Good Book says it's about believing and confessing.
- Tracie Peterson
We are a passionate family that believes in standing up strongly for what is right, even when there is a cost. We live our lives around our Church and our faith, placing special emphasis on maximizing our involvement in our children's lives, and nurturing family-like relationships with our friends.
- Patrick Lencioni
The only really effective apologia for Christianity comes down to two arguments, namely, the saints the Church has produced, and the art which has grown in her womb.
- Pope Benedict XVI
If you limit worship to where you are, the minute you leave that place of worship you will leave your attitude of worship behind like a crumpled-up church bulletin.
- Tony Evans
the same apostle Paul was sure that if the church in Corinth would worship God aright, any unbeliever who came into their meeting would "fall down and worship God, exclaiming, 'God is really among you' " (1 Cor. 14:25). That's missional praise.
- Christopher Wright
So you can't look at church history to find the model for the church, just like you can't look at the history of mankind and find God's divine intention for man.
- Chuck Smith
Church existed because of love and forgiveness, not because of man's accusations and disapproval.
- Cindy Woodsmall
Where God's Word is, there is God Himself, there God's Spirit is at work, there God establishes His covenant, there He plants His church.
- Herman Bavinck
It is, moreover, of the greatest importance for every believer, particularly for the dogmatician, to know which Scriptural truths, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, have been brought to universal recognition in the church of Christ. By this process, after all, the church is kept from immediately mistaking a private opinion for the truth of God.
- Herman Bavinck
In case a dogma is not based on divine authority, it is wrong to call it by that name, and it should not have a place in the faith of the church.
- Herman Bavinck
The church's holiness must not be sacrificed for its catholicity, and the church's catholicity may not be surrendered in favor of its holiness. For in denying either, we lose both. Both attributes by nature characterize the one Christian church.
- Herman Bavinck
The New Testament reveals the present age as a parenthesis in the prophetic program during which the Church is called out from among the Gentiles, a stranger and pilgrim body, belonging to the kingdom of God, but in no sense identical with the kingdom of heaven.
- Lewis Sperry Chafer