2,024 Quotes About Church

The church exists primarily for two closely correlated purposes: to worship God and to work for his kingdom in the world ... The church also exists for a third purpose, which serves the other two: to encourage one another, to build one another up in faith, to pray with and for one another, to learn from one another and teach one another, and to set one another examples to follow, challenges to take up, and urgent tasks to perform. This is all part of what is known loosely as fellowship.

Truly God is the best of creators. He designed my physical face with so much care and a little touch of makeup in the form of a beard and mustaches.

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

Adam and Eve were still ignorant and new residents of Heaven, yet the tree was placed there to test their IQ level.

What is to be gained if we are so intent in reaching out to the unchurched that we then unchurch the reached?

The church is constituted as a new people who have been gathered from the nations to remind the world that we are in fact one people. Gathering, therefore, is an eschatological act as it is the foretaste of the unity of the communion of the saints.

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.

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.

We claim to worship the same God, but we know deep down that the other person must follow our "path" as the best path to heaven.