If they give it up, they give up luxury, they give up comfort.” When all lives begin to sink into the same mould of denial and exercise of liberty, something is amiss.
I do not think the devil cares how many churches you build, if only you have lukewarm preachers and people in them. It is the huge buildings of commerce and trade which now align the people to attention. I have community with others and I shall continue to have it only through Jesus Christ.
Just as the Christian should not be constantly feeling his spiritual pulse, so, too, the Christian community has not been given to us by God for us to be constantly taking its temperature.
Quotes tagged as "the-church" Showing 1-30 of 55 “I would like to encourage you to stop thinking of what you're doing as ministry. “Fast forgiveness is a part of Christian culture I want to help change and transform. There was no sense of performance or judgment, only that the music was breath and food.” Your ministry is the way that you love people. According to Scripture, being a part of a local church brings with it tremendous privileges, and serious responsibilities, that can be fulfilled in no other way. We must confess he builds. The spiritual life in the believer never has known dissension or break, because where the Spirit has perfect liberty, then they all agree and there is no schism in the body. It is a great comfort which Jesus gives to his church. It was furry and resonant, coming from everyone's very heart. Then Monday evening was the missionary meeting. It may be that the times which by human standards are the times of collapse are for him the great times of construction. My pastor mentioned Kierkegaard in a sermon only once, and it would be a long time before I discovered that there was a storied Christian who suffered from, and so in some way sanctioned, depression, rage, sarcasm, and despair--the diseases that took hold in adolescence, for which church offered no cure.” I believe in the brain of man.”
A good church is a Bible-centered church. “One of the most amazing and perplexing features of mainstream Christianity is that seminarians who learn the historical-critical method in their Bible classes appear to forget all about it when it comes time for them to be pastors. The church is holy because the congregation is the house of God. “Perhaps there is no better illustration of the ethical impotency of the modern church than its failure to deal with the evils and ethical problems of stock manipulation. God hates this wishful dreaming because it makes the dreamer proud and pretentious. 15 Great Quotes about Christian Missions. He only calls us to do his work, proclaiming his Word to people he loves under anointing power of the Holy Spirit to produce results that only he can bring about. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.” There was a time when this great world, the sun, the moon, the stars, and all which now exist throughout the whole of the vast universe, lay in the mind of God, like unborn forests in an acorn cup. The Church used to be a lifeboat rescuing the perishing. The most he can say is I will see you in the vestry after service.The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal.If church prelates, past or present, had even an inkling of physiology they'd realize that what they term this inner ugliness creates and nourishes the hearing ear, the seeing eye, the active mind, and energetic body of man and woman, in the same way that dirt and dung at the roots give the plant its delicate leaves and the full-blown rose.I never weary of great churches.
Poor, sickly believers turn the church into a hospital, rather than an army. There was a time when the Great Creator lived alone, and yet he could foresee that he would make a world, and that men would be born to people it; and in that vast eternity a great scheme was devised, whereby he might save a fallen race. The church has always been afraid of that tree. It still is afraid of knowledge. The Church is the one institution that exists for those outside it. Their public pronouncements are often highly judgmental, while internally such churches experience many bitter conflicts, splits, and divisions. We must pray to him, and he will build. The church is a hospital for sinners, and not a museum for saints. Then Monday evening was the missionary meeting. Whoever is mindful to build the church is surely well on the way to destroying it, for he will build a temple to idols without wishing or knowing it.
If they give it up, they give up luxury, they give up comfort.” When all lives begin to sink into the same mould of denial and exercise of liberty, something is amiss.
I do not think the devil cares how many churches you build, if only you have lukewarm preachers and people in them. It is the huge buildings of commerce and trade which now align the people to attention. I have community with others and I shall continue to have it only through Jesus Christ.
Just as the Christian should not be constantly feeling his spiritual pulse, so, too, the Christian community has not been given to us by God for us to be constantly taking its temperature.
Quotes tagged as "the-church" Showing 1-30 of 55 “I would like to encourage you to stop thinking of what you're doing as ministry. “Fast forgiveness is a part of Christian culture I want to help change and transform. There was no sense of performance or judgment, only that the music was breath and food.” Your ministry is the way that you love people. According to Scripture, being a part of a local church brings with it tremendous privileges, and serious responsibilities, that can be fulfilled in no other way. We must confess he builds. The spiritual life in the believer never has known dissension or break, because where the Spirit has perfect liberty, then they all agree and there is no schism in the body. It is a great comfort which Jesus gives to his church. It was furry and resonant, coming from everyone's very heart. Then Monday evening was the missionary meeting. It may be that the times which by human standards are the times of collapse are for him the great times of construction. My pastor mentioned Kierkegaard in a sermon only once, and it would be a long time before I discovered that there was a storied Christian who suffered from, and so in some way sanctioned, depression, rage, sarcasm, and despair--the diseases that took hold in adolescence, for which church offered no cure.” I believe in the brain of man.”
A good church is a Bible-centered church. “One of the most amazing and perplexing features of mainstream Christianity is that seminarians who learn the historical-critical method in their Bible classes appear to forget all about it when it comes time for them to be pastors. The church is holy because the congregation is the house of God. “Perhaps there is no better illustration of the ethical impotency of the modern church than its failure to deal with the evils and ethical problems of stock manipulation. God hates this wishful dreaming because it makes the dreamer proud and pretentious. 15 Great Quotes about Christian Missions. He only calls us to do his work, proclaiming his Word to people he loves under anointing power of the Holy Spirit to produce results that only he can bring about. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.” There was a time when this great world, the sun, the moon, the stars, and all which now exist throughout the whole of the vast universe, lay in the mind of God, like unborn forests in an acorn cup. The Church used to be a lifeboat rescuing the perishing. The most he can say is I will see you in the vestry after service.The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal.If church prelates, past or present, had even an inkling of physiology they'd realize that what they term this inner ugliness creates and nourishes the hearing ear, the seeing eye, the active mind, and energetic body of man and woman, in the same way that dirt and dung at the roots give the plant its delicate leaves and the full-blown rose.I never weary of great churches.
Poor, sickly believers turn the church into a hospital, rather than an army. There was a time when the Great Creator lived alone, and yet he could foresee that he would make a world, and that men would be born to people it; and in that vast eternity a great scheme was devised, whereby he might save a fallen race. The church has always been afraid of that tree. It still is afraid of knowledge. The Church is the one institution that exists for those outside it. Their public pronouncements are often highly judgmental, while internally such churches experience many bitter conflicts, splits, and divisions. We must pray to him, and he will build. The church is a hospital for sinners, and not a museum for saints. Then Monday evening was the missionary meeting. Whoever is mindful to build the church is surely well on the way to destroying it, for he will build a temple to idols without wishing or knowing it.
Oh, to have a church built up with the deep godliness of people who know the Lord in their very hearts, and will seek to follow the Lamb wherever he goes! Quotes tagged as "catholic-church" Showing 1-30 of 103 “That is the idea -- that we should all be wicked if we did not hold to the Christian religion.
If they give it up, they give up luxury, they give up comfort.” When all lives begin to sink into the same mould of denial and exercise of liberty, something is amiss.
I do not think the devil cares how many churches you build, if only you have lukewarm preachers and people in them. It is the huge buildings of commerce and trade which now align the people to attention. I have community with others and I shall continue to have it only through Jesus Christ.
Just as the Christian should not be constantly feeling his spiritual pulse, so, too, the Christian community has not been given to us by God for us to be constantly taking its temperature.
Quotes tagged as "the-church" Showing 1-30 of 55 “I would like to encourage you to stop thinking of what you're doing as ministry. “Fast forgiveness is a part of Christian culture I want to help change and transform. There was no sense of performance or judgment, only that the music was breath and food.” Your ministry is the way that you love people. According to Scripture, being a part of a local church brings with it tremendous privileges, and serious responsibilities, that can be fulfilled in no other way. We must confess he builds. The spiritual life in the believer never has known dissension or break, because where the Spirit has perfect liberty, then they all agree and there is no schism in the body. It is a great comfort which Jesus gives to his church. It was furry and resonant, coming from everyone's very heart. Then Monday evening was the missionary meeting. It may be that the times which by human standards are the times of collapse are for him the great times of construction. My pastor mentioned Kierkegaard in a sermon only once, and it would be a long time before I discovered that there was a storied Christian who suffered from, and so in some way sanctioned, depression, rage, sarcasm, and despair--the diseases that took hold in adolescence, for which church offered no cure.” I believe in the brain of man.”
A good church is a Bible-centered church. “One of the most amazing and perplexing features of mainstream Christianity is that seminarians who learn the historical-critical method in their Bible classes appear to forget all about it when it comes time for them to be pastors. The church is holy because the congregation is the house of God. “Perhaps there is no better illustration of the ethical impotency of the modern church than its failure to deal with the evils and ethical problems of stock manipulation. God hates this wishful dreaming because it makes the dreamer proud and pretentious. 15 Great Quotes about Christian Missions. He only calls us to do his work, proclaiming his Word to people he loves under anointing power of the Holy Spirit to produce results that only he can bring about. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.” There was a time when this great world, the sun, the moon, the stars, and all which now exist throughout the whole of the vast universe, lay in the mind of God, like unborn forests in an acorn cup. The Church used to be a lifeboat rescuing the perishing. The most he can say is I will see you in the vestry after service.The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal.If church prelates, past or present, had even an inkling of physiology they'd realize that what they term this inner ugliness creates and nourishes the hearing ear, the seeing eye, the active mind, and energetic body of man and woman, in the same way that dirt and dung at the roots give the plant its delicate leaves and the full-blown rose.I never weary of great churches.
Poor, sickly believers turn the church into a hospital, rather than an army. There was a time when the Great Creator lived alone, and yet he could foresee that he would make a world, and that men would be born to people it; and in that vast eternity a great scheme was devised, whereby he might save a fallen race. The church has always been afraid of that tree. It still is afraid of knowledge. The Church is the one institution that exists for those outside it. Their public pronouncements are often highly judgmental, while internally such churches experience many bitter conflicts, splits, and divisions. We must pray to him, and he will build. The church is a hospital for sinners, and not a museum for saints. Then Monday evening was the missionary meeting. Whoever is mindful to build the church is surely well on the way to destroying it, for he will build a temple to idols without wishing or knowing it.
