If every Christian family in the United States would simply commit to pray and ask God if HE wants to use them to bless a child without a family, well, we’d change the world. If...

Far from seeking to justify, as does the Church, the necessity of torments and afflictions, he cried, in his outraged pity: ‘If a God has made this world, I should not wish to be that...

God doesn’t act like the Church. No, instead, the Church must act like God.

To preach about sin, but refuse to integrate grace and mercy is a sermonic sin.

I don’t like bullshit and pretense.I can’t enjoy the joy at church…without some cash in my wallet.

The problem with the church is the church

Jesus never says to the poor: ‘come find the church’, but he says to those of us in the church: ‘go into the world and find the poor, hungry, homeless, imprisoned.

This is, indeed, an insightful observation. The Archbishop [Joseph L. Berardin] insists that the natural resemblance between Christ and his priests must not stop merely with the fact that they share a common masculinity. Our...

Jesus said, ” I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to myself,” knowing that the nature of a forgiving Christ on the cross would compel people to follow Him....

There is no one true church, no one chosen people.

I’m a church boy. I got whuppin’s. So I’m afraid at any moment my grandmother could just swing down from heaven with a switch.

In a team setting, leadership is shared by a community of people, which counters the tendency for pastors to form congregations in their own images.

If our church was magically lifted off the ground and moved to a location fifteen miles away, would we notice the difference?” Western churches have become so disentangled from their own places that this question...

abuse seminar” together some place, somehow? Was it taught in the seminary? In some dark corner? It goes beyond coincidence—the similarities in deeds and verbiage that these predators use on us. It truly chilled me...

If you live today, you breath in nihilism … it’s the gas you breathe. If I hadn’t had the Church to fight it with or to tell me the necessity of fighting it, I would...

I tell my christian relatives that “churchianity” is the central reason the church is not teeming with young people. The hypocrisy within the church is not concealed from this growing, informed generation. The arrogance among...

Error is human,perfection is divine!You are not God! Your mistake is normal.So forgive yourself.

Law does, “because God said so!”; Grace does because it understands the reason God said so.

Missional leaders understand the power of connecting relationally in their community through personal networking.

Why does the Church grow and flourish? It does so because of divine direction to the leaders and members.

The real architect of a life is the hard and almost impossible circumstances one faces.

The Church is Christ’s witness to the world of a loving savior and His redemptive plan for man.

The wealthy, Jesus says, can only get into heaven through the eye of a needle; the same applies to churches wealthy in numbers and programs.

A person’s faith goes at its own pace. The trouble with church is the service. A service is conducted for a mass audience. Just when I start to like the hymn, everyone plops down to...

If God gave Dad Alzheimer’s, He’s got to understand when Dad forgets what church he belongs to.

Worship gatherings are not always spectacular, but they are always supernatural. And if a church looks for or works for the spectacular, she may miss the supernatural. If a person enters a gathering to be...

Between Monday and Saturday men make an audience. On Sunday, they make a congregation.

The earlier practice of the Church had been more or less to employ in worship under the presidency of the pastor or pastors, the gifts of the congregation.

I understood that the Church had a Heart, and that this Heart was burning with love.

Christian missions to India imply that India is a land of heathens, and, therefore, stands on the same level with the Andaman or the Fiji Islands. That a country which has been recognised in all...

It is a better thing to save souls for the Lord than to save treasures. He who sent forth his apostles without gold had not need of gold to form his Church. The Church possesses...

The humble were the elect of God. Did not the priests teach so, in their gemmed, kingly robes, from their towering pulpits?

Gnosticism is undeniably pre-Christian, with both Jewish and gentile roots. The wisdom of Solomon already contained Gnostic elements and prototypes for the Jesus of the Gospels…God stops being the Lord of righteous deed and becomes...

Christians don’t tell lies they just go to church and sing them.

Tough times don’t define you, they refine you. ‪

The Church is the Church only when it exists for others…not dominating, but helping and serving. It must tell men of every calling what it means to live for Christ, to exist for others.

Luther had passed many a white church in his day, heard them singing their hymns and chanting their “Amens” and seen them gather on a porch or two afterward with their lemonade and piety, but...

At church, during communion, they give out free wine. Whoa! Talk about a great place to drink and meet women.

Don’t compare yourself to other Christians. Compare yourself to Christ. He is the one you follow. He is the one other Christians too follow”.

We need to get to the heart of each heart issue—and we can’t do it. Only the Maker can. The world needs #Jesus.

Our lack of community is intensely painful. A TV talk show is not community. A couple of hours in a church pew each Sabbath is not community. A multinational corporation is neither a human nor...

The thing about the Islamic situation is we don’t have a church. We don’t have an ordained priesthood, which makes it a little complicated. But we do have a tradition of scholarship, and rules of...

Be a FRIEND and stop worrying about having any

There is no indication that any church official suggested or supported the emperor’s action against gay people. On the contrary, the only persons known by name to have been punished for homosexual acts were prominent...

We have taken a giant step forward in correcting some of the misconceptions people have about the church. I think that we’ve made a lot of friends.

Pop stars AREN’T cool. Cheating on your husband or your wife isn’t cool. Having no modesty with your body and no self-respect is NOT cool. It doesn’t matter how pretty someone’s voice is, or if...

Anybody who had come up with a new concept would have been under suspicion for being out of step with the tradition or out of step with the teachings of the church.

There is good even in church people. You find it hard to believe, right? Jesus never shut the door on religious people. He just made sure that they understand He was that door, and not...

Deb and I were married on a snowy night – wind cross-wove a veil of snow for her then threw confetti at us as we left the lighted church…

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