The problem is not a lack of churches, but a lack of true ministers, and believers that really are followers of Christ.

If you cannot see that divinity includes male and female characteristics and at the same time transcends them, you have bad consequences. Rome and Cardinal O’Connor base the exclusion of women priests on the idea...

When others sit, a #StaticJedi is found standing—even standing along, with a message not in hand but secure in heart!

I am convinced it is, then our churches are filled with believers who are hurting, to one degree or another, whether visible or unseen. Some come every Sunday clinging to a thread of hope that...

I consider myself a non-denominational Christian. I grew up in a Bible church and still hold those beliefs very close to me.

Too many in the Church today are likes babies in the nursery,they put everything in their mouth.

Give me a child until he is seven, thought Tom, and he is forever after mine. When the Fascists say it, they’re bums and kidnappers, but when the Church says it, it is known as...

Most of the church landscape in my lifetime has been heavily invested in trying to do something for Jerry or Sherri or some other icon of unchurchness. The problem is that they have been only...

The way we saw things, it didn’t matter that God had created the heavens and the earth—he did not want us excited about living here. A good fundamentalist worth his weight in guilt was quick...

Royce Westmoreland stared at him with biting scorn. “I despise hypocrisy, particularly when it is coated with holiness.””May I ask for a specific example?””Fat priests,” Royce replied, “with fat purses, who lecture staving peasants on...

Lobbing hand grenades on the bride of Christ takes zero talent or effort. I also think this really ticks God off. My five-year-old child complains and whines when things aren’t the way she wants them,...

Let us not forget: we are a pilgrim church, subject to misunderstanding, to persecution, but a church that walks serene, because it bears the force of love.

The story of the angel announcing what the church calls the immaculate conception, is not so much as mentioned in the books ascribed to Mark, and John; and is differently related in Matthew and Luke....

He’d gone to church for forty years and was only getting worse. It seemed like this should tell God something.

Confession is a difficult discipline for us, because we all too often view the believing community as a fellowship of saints before we see it as a fellowship of sinners. We feel that everyone else...

Just say it: I’m angry and no one will like me. God: No, I will not say that. But don’t you think we ached for you to find a love you could share your whole...

[The Lord’s Supper teaches that] Rituals are good, and they are instituted and used by God to ‘connect’ his people with him. We learn through ritual that the church is not just made up of...

Clearly a big challenge for Christianity is how to remain in contact with the millions of people who look for God but do not come to Church.

Teenagers who do not go to church are adored by God, but they don’t get to meet some of the people who love God back.

As a leader it is your job to protect the missional integrity of the Jesus gathering to which you have been called. It is your responsibility to see to it that the church under your...

I think that God that we have created and allowed to shape our culture through, essentially Christian theology is a pretty villainous creature. I think that one of the things that male patriarchal figure has...

My attraction to heavy church-goers has more to do with me wanting to see who’d win the fight; me or god

She was a church open only for him, with services in full operation twenty-four hours a day.

What I got out of church was a love of God, and a detestable feeling for the men standing in the way of Him—and the buffet in the banquet hall. Stand aside—I’m starving!

The worst tragedy of sin isn’t that it produced bad behavior, but that it produced the idea that bad behavior is strong enough to deflect love.

Why are those who are notoriously undisciplined and unmoral also most contemptuous of religion and morality? They are trying to solace their own unhappy lives by pulling the happy down to their own abysmal depths.

As for the general view that the Church was discredited by the War—they might as well say that the Ark was discredited by the Flood. When the world goes wrong, it proves rather that the...

I would rather live short and right then long and wrong.

The Church is not called to overthrow government but to influence culture.

I’ve tried to be active in civic organizations as well as the Church.

This is a paradox of Whitefield’s legacy: evangelicalism draws people of different churches while dividing those within the same denomination.

Your impact on the lives of others–your family, the people at your church, your workmates–is cultivated with each decision you make, no matter how small.

Some people in orthodox churches in Africa take poverty as a path that leads to heaven, making christianity look unattractive.

To conquer your biology, stop seeing people sexually and start seeing them as family. In our day, we have really a perverted notion where it’s like strangers and potential sexual objects.

Closing one’s eyes when praying doesn’t increase the odds of the prayer being answered. It merely decreases the odds of being distracted.

Speak it till you reach it!

When my father died, I had a real experience with Christ, a real conversion with Christ and I had it in a Oneness church.

The rest of the world can go to hell. We don’t care.

Jesus gave us a model for the work of the church at the Last Supper. While his disciples kept proposing more organization ─ Hey, let’s elect officers, establish hierarchy, set standards of professionalism ─ Jesus...

When he gets to his pew and looks round him he sees just that selection of his neighbors whom he has hitherto avoided. You want to lean pretty heavily on those neighbors. Make his mind...

The press was ruthless, but then so was the church.Flavia de Luce

Those who find no humor in faith are probably those who find the church a refuge for their own black way of looking at life, although I think many of us find the church a...

True prayer is done in secret, but this does not rule out the fellowship of prayer altogether, however clearly we may be aware of its dangers. In the last resort it is immaterial whether we...

We were so created to worship God that it is probably embedded in our spiritual DNA itself!

Kein Kindergarten, keine Schule, kein Krankenhaus, kein Altenheim in Trägerschaft der christlichen Kirchen und ihrer Wohlfahrtsverbände wird zum Hauptteil aus der Kirchensteuer finanziert. Stattdessen zahlt die Allgemeinheit und damit auch all diejenigen, die nicht Mitglied...

The governments and their policies have failed, the church is the last hope of the common man, I value a church that is a home for all.

the service”. Sermons might have been helpful in the later Middle Ages when even many Catholic priests couldn’t read. However, modern research has repeatedly proven that lecturing is the worst possible way to educate others...

I think I can be spiritual, and I can feel that I want to live well, I want to do things that I’m proud of, and I think that’s important. Now, do I need a...

The President of the Church will not lead the people of the Church astray. It will never happen.

Cream always rises to the top…so do good leaders”.