There has never been a meaningful life built on easy street.

Jesus did not command us to “develop” leaders. He commanded us to make “disciples”. The world “develops” leaders, the Church “disciples” them. The two are not the same.

I sometimes wonder if God calls us into the church because it represents not the people of God at their best but us at our worst. I wonder if he calls us to become embedded...

The institutions of Churchianity are not Christianity. An institution is a good thing if it is second; immediately an institution recognizes itself it becomes the dominating factor.

On the edge of dreaming when the brain lets go, when it stops its scheming, our blood runs slow… Then the heart speaks clearly of the things it knows, things it brought so dearly at...

Fear not, brothers and sisters, God, who is full of grace and abounding in steadfast love, meets us in our sin and transforms us for God’s glory and the healing of God’s world. In the...

Unless we learn how to humbly tell each other our giving stories, our churches will not learn to give.

It is very difficult sometimes to keep awake, especially at church, but there is no difficulty at all about sleeping.

There’s no stronger bulwark of sound conservatism than the evangelical church, and no better place to make friends who’ll help you to gain your rightful place in the community than in your own church-home!

For a Christian to be a Christian, he must first be a sinner. Being a sinner is a prerequisite for being a church member. The Christian church is one of the few organizations in the...

If everything is mission, nothing is mission.

The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.

My vision of the gathered church that had come to me… had been replaced by a vision of the gathered community. What I saw now was the community imperfect and irresolute but held together by...

The church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.

Before I was ordained, when I was working for the council, I thought of the first three months of the year as January, February, March. Now I think of them as Epiphany, Candlemas and Ash...

The story goes that a public sinner was excommunicated and forbidden entry to the church. He took his woes to God. ‘They won’t let me in, Lord, because I am a sinner.”What are you complaining...

If you want your ministry to have ‘it’, more important than anything else we’ve discussed, you must have ‘it’. When it has filtered through your heart – the rare combination of passion, integrity, focus, faith,...

In a church of my own we’re perfect togetherI recognize you in the stained glass

It is not possible to understand the NT concept of the church if we overlook the numerous metaphors used to portray it. The church is Christ’s body, a temple, a family, a royal priesthood, twelve...

Our greatest fear as individuals & as a church should not be of failure, but of suceeding at things in life that dont really matter.

If Jesus didn’t do it, don’t say the Father does. If Jesus did do it, don’t say the Father doesn’t.

Did those nice church ladies come by again?” He nodded. “I asked them if a man died and then the woman remarried, and then the three of them met in heaven, would it be a...

How can we say that the Church wishes to bring us back into the Dark Ages? The Church was the only thing that ever brought us out of them.

True leaders bring out your personal best. They ignite your human potential”.

Husbands and wives, recognize that in marriage you have become one flesh. If you live for your private pleasure at the expense of your spouse, you are living against yourself and destroying your joy. But...

Let God Himself be the main attraction at church again, and let us be tireless in our insistence that church is for God, about God, through God, and to the glory of His great Son.

The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity.

My mom always says I cut my teeth on the church pew.

The Church has an excellent appetite. She has swallowed whole countries and the questionHas never risen of indigestion. Only the Church . . . can take Ill-gotten goods without stomach-ache!

You have to treat that. You have to get rid of that. Believe in Christ. Be converted.

When we consider that so few generations had passed since thechurch left off disemboweling innocent men before the eyes of theirfamilies, burning old women alive in public squares, and torturingscholars to the point of madness...

Bombs have kill-radiuses; churches should have love-radiuses–anyone within twenty miles of a church should know it.

Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches.

The church is like Noah’s ark. It stinks, but if you get out of it, you’ll drown.

I grew up in San Francisco in the 1970s. We were part of a church that belonged to the California Jesus movement.

My double drags his coffin, humble slave,I, at least, am real, though changed to flesh.Far-off, I build me a church no hand can shape(“Winter Sonnets: III”)

Officially, the New Testament church at an early stage took seriously their responsibility for widows who lacked family or other resources. The office of deacon was instituted initially to address this pressing need.

I remind you that there are churches so completely out of the hands of God that if the Holy Spirit withdrew from them, they wouldn’t find it out for many months

Don’t let hard lessons harden your heart.

I’m not particularly in favor of doctrine or creed, ordination, the elevation of holy texts, the institution of church, or, for that matter, Christianity. Like most religions, it has irreconcilable shortcomings and an unforgivable history....

You stand out like a fart in church.

There is no dogma that the organ or harmonium can be used in church, but not the drum.

When you are close to Christ, you are enclosed in liberty. You can never be intimidated by man if you are intimate with Christ.

It rains on everyone. It may be storming but there is a covering.Life may be challenging, but there is a covering.It may seem impossible, hopeless, doubtful, fear-ridden, and pain-laden, but there is a covering. There...

I grew up in the Holiness Church, where prayer was an event.

No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.

My life has far exceeded my expectations not because of my own personal efforts or mindset but because of my friends who have enriched my existence

There is an obsession in the Church with sin management. People think more about their sins than about their redemption through Jesus

We all have that divine moment, when our lives are transformed by the knowledge of the truth.

May our lives and gentle spirit be evident to all that we are members of God’s family.