#church

I remind you that there are churches so completely out of the hands of God that if the Holy Spirit withdrew from them, they wouldn't find it out for many months ↗

— A.W. Tozer

#holy-spirit #holy-spirit

The only group large enough to handle," the world's biggest, "problems is the network of millions of local churches around the world. We have the widest distribution, largest group of volunteers, local credibility, the promises of God, the power of the Holy Spirit, and the inevitability of history. ↗

— Rick Warren

#holy-spirit

Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles, expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these so-called new movements still operate out of the fallacious assumption that the church belongs firmly in the town square, that is, at the heart of Western culture. And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting, all their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension. ↗

— Alan Hirsch

#christianity #church #ecclesiology #holy-spirit

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

— Jensen Ackles

#bible #christian #church #close #consider

Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure. ↗

— Fred Allen

#crop #days #each #failure #first

Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They're afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs. ↗

— Fred Allen

#ask #autographs #church #even #god

Among our own people also the church sorely needs clergy in close touch with the ordinary life of the laity, living the life of ordinary men, sharing their difficulties and understanding their trials by close personal experience. ↗

— Roland Allen

#among #church #clergy #close #difficulties

Therefore, the church is not absolutely necessary as an object of faith, not even for us today, for then Abraham and the other prophets would not have given assent to those things which were revealed to them from God without any intervening help of the church. ↗

— William Ames

#absolutely #any #assent #church #even

He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic. ↗

— Kingsley Amis

#catholic #chiefly #church #currently #did

My father was a preacher in Maryland and we had crab feasts - with corn on the cob, but no beer, being Methodist - outside on the church lawn. ↗

— Tori Amos

#being #church #corn #crab #father