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If you claim to be a follower of Christ, I encourage you to consider your present commitment to a local church.
There are a few Irish writers who have a very strong influence on me, especially on the 'Take Me to Church' EP.
My family took me to church when I was like 4 years old, and I had to be in a pageant, and I was playing Jesus.
A lot of kids, when they go to church, they don't really pay much attention to what they're saying or whatever.
If your church conveys that spirit of condescension or judgment, it's likely not a place where grace is on tap.
I'm thinking of buying a church and changing it around: maybe selling crack and having a few whores in the pew.
Without a vision our community will perish without Christ, but without a vision the church will perish as well.
I listened to Country music a little bit, but it didn't enter my life until I started listening to Eric Church.
No union exists between church and state, and perfect freedom of opinion is guaranteed to all sects and creeds.
Some people think they are too good to walk the same earth as the rest of us, let alone attend the same church.
If the church marries herself to the spirit of the times, she will find herself a widow in the next generation.
Christians in community must again show the world, not merely family values, but the bond of the love of Christ.
The problem is not that the churches are filled with empty pews, but that the pews are filled with empty people.
In church, sacred music would make believers of us all — but preachers can be counted on to restore the balance.
Your problems are not just your problems. Ultimately, they belong to the church body that God has placed you in.
The Church must be seen as the company of pilgrims on the way to the end of the world and the ends of the earth.
Is this really the church of Christ, or are we just calling it the church because of our traditions and history?
If both Church and fairy-tale belong to humanity, they may occasionally cross circles, without injury to either.
We can never get around to being one nation under God if we can't even get around to being one Church under God.
A Church without Youth is a Church without a future. Moreover, Youth without a Church is Youth without a future.
The preaching is part of the reason I don't go to church. Plus, I don't know, it was never part of my tradition.
Look, don't judge Christianity by the imperfect examples that we have seen in history. Judge it by Jesus Christ.
Young men do not usually become inactive in the Church because they are given too many significant things to do.
Lovers of Norfolk churches can never agree which is the best and I think one is either a Salle or a Cawston man.
The Roman Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone - for respectable people, the Anglican Church will do.
I was raised Catholic and I have a lot of respect for the good in the Catholic Church. But I don't go to church.
There is no such thing as separation of church and state. It is merely a figment of the imagination of infidels.
If my duty does involve heralding His law in every arena, then the Church in America is failing radically today.
The early church didn’t say, ‘Look what the world is coming to!’ They said, ‘Look what has come into the world’!
God wants us to make Jesus Christ the central figure in our church--not just say that we do, but actually do it.
But words are water in Amsterdam, they flood your ears and set the rot, and the church's east corner is crowded.
The Church limits her sacramental services to the faithful. Christ gave Himself upon the cross a ransom for all.
A time will come when instead of shepherds feeding the sheep, the church will have clowns entertaining the goats
If the world is turning, even the church can't stop it; if it isn't turning, nobody can go out and make it turn.
I grew up in the church and began to recite set pieces at the age of four and five, like many of the other kids.
I was born or raised in the church, so I guess the first songs I would have played would have been church songs.
About Jesus Christ and the Church, I simply know they're just one thing, and we shouldn't complicate the matter.
A church must grow larger and smaller at the same time. Larger through worship and smaller through small groups.
I don't go to church much anymore, but Methodist values still wind me up and send me ticking into my daily life.
In the New Testament church it says they were all amazed - And now in our churches everybody wants to be amused.
In America, evangelical churches have often been bastions of conservatism, providing support for the status quo.
No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state
We're not church planters. We are community planters and, as we work in our communities, we join local churches.
Let us never forget that it is the Lord who guides the Church. He is the one who makes our apostolates fruitful.
Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.
In preaching you cannot produce at the same time the impression that you are clever and that Christ is wonderful.
The opening of the first grammar school was the opening of the first trench against monopoly in Church and State.
Neither I nor anyone in the Church would ever tolerate hatred of or prejudice towards any of the Lord's children.
The secular mind and heart, however gifted and personally charming, has no place in the leadership of the church.
When you go to church, if the pastor at some point doesn't make you laugh, he probably ain't gonna make you join.