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One of the major failures of the church is not a focus on building disciples but a focus on building members.
If the Church is in Christ, its initial act is always the act of thanksgiving, of returning the world to God.
Gospel influences your soul. If you've had church in your background... it's just a part of your musical DNA.
When I was growing up, I'd be in the choir. My mum was the organist in the church, so I'd sing in the church.
The Sisters were Southern Baptist, and they went to church on Saturdays and Sundays, and most other days, too.
How can a bishop marry? How can he flirt? The most he can say is "I will see you in the vestry after service."
I go to church every Sunday, which is like going to the gas station once a week and really, really filling up.
As my friend said that when people say the church is full of hypocrites, he says we always have room for more.
It's not easy to follow Jesus' example, and if you go to church it doesn't mean you're automatically doing it.
A pastor can teach you on TV, but he can't pastor you on TV. There's so much to gain by belonging to a church.
I grew up in a church. My mom is a minister so she would make us go to every possible church she could muster.
He'd gone to church for forty years and was only getting worse. It seemed like this should tell God something.
A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there's more conversation.
Marriage is a civic matter. It is really not, together with all its circumstances, the business of the church.
I would like a more missionary church,Not so much a tranquil church, but a beautiful church that goes forward.
As all who come into the country must obey the King, so all who come into an university must be of the Church.
See, my hope and dream is that people have a good time watching basketball. It's not church. It's not serious.
My life goal is to see the world's one billion people with disabilities embraced and encouraged by the church.
And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins.
The Church needs your faith, your idealism and your generosity, so that she can always be young in the Spirit.
Church and state should be separate, not only in form, but fact - religion and politics should not be mingled.
I visualize the day that tridents and pentagrams are thrust into the sky from church roofs instead of crosses.
Most church members live so far below the standard, you would have to backslide to be in fellowship with them.
Due to our consumer mindset, people are prone to jump from church to church, which weakens the church overall.
The greatest obstacle in the apostolate of the Church is the timidity or rather the cowardice of the faithful.
Only 13.7% of churches in America are consider multiethnic. This means that 86.3 % of churches are homogenous.
In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
In the end, the church will either declare the truth of God's Word, or it will find a way to run away from it.
A woman never wrote, "Thou shalt not commit adultery." God wrote that. You sin first and foremost against God.
It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church.
Wouldn't you like to contribute to an event that is part of Christ's own prediction, "I will build my church"?
The church must share in the secular problems of ordinary human life, not dominating, but helping and serving.
I'm not a religious person. I have a one-on-one relationship with God, but I don't go to church like I should.
Jesus was born again in the pit of hell. .. The church started when Jesus was born again in the gates of hell.
The Rosary is a magnificent and universal prayer for the needs of the Church, the nations and the entire world.
I'm interested in the history of ideas and how these ideas take on flesh and influence culture, and the church.
My experiences growing up in both a Chinese American household and the Catholic Church define much of who I am.
Wherever we turn in the church of God, there is Jesus. He is the beginning, middle and end of everything to us.
I believe a very large majority of church goers are merely unthinking, slumbering worshipers of an unknown God.
I hope not in works. I hope not in ethics. I hope not in baptisms or church membership. I hope in Christ alone.
There is only one Church, and the responsibility for missionary work is universal. 'Every member a missionary.'
Generally, elders are among the more reverent members of the Church, but there is no law prescribing their age.
Separation of church and state cannot mean an absolute separation between moral principles and political power.
The end for which Christ lives, and for which He has left His church in the world, is the salvation of sinners.
Time, like a preacher in the days of the Puritans, turned the hour-glass on his high pulpit, the church belfry.
I hadn't been exposed to music except in church. They used to have me singing a solo when I was five years old.
We live in a church culture that has a dangerous tendency to disconnect the grace of God from the glory of God.
Im known for snatchin' purses and bombin' churches I get more pussy on accident then most niggas get on purpose
Spending time in a church does not make you religious, any more than spending time in a garage makes you a car.
The clerical system of church management is exceedingly popular, but the whole thought is foreign to Scripture.