Quotes about Church

One of the things that we, as men, have often missed in the church in multiple ways is both experiencing and displaying God's power and blessings collectively. With

When men begin to function in their homes, accountable to the guidance and direction of a leader in the church, things change.

The definition of unity is oneness of purpose, not sameness of being. Like a quilt with various colors and patterns that have been blended together into a harmonious whole, a church in unity celebrates each person's unique place in the divine design.

many men have come to view the church as a task to be done rather than a community to be in.

Christian leaders have leveraged our men to build church buildings and run church programs, but we have failed to disciple them in what it means to be about the kingdom. Nothing is wrong with church buildings—as long as those within it aim to use the available resources strategically to advance God's kingdom.

God wants the church to be a community where real people in real relationships are meeting real needs in real ways. God did not create the church simply as a classroom where you get instruction or as a theater where you come to watch a performance.

Even though a man's involvement with the church is so critical, it seems that in most churches, men are not taking an active role in any men's ministry or in transferring a kingdom worldview. What

Sola scriptura means at least this: that the church's proclamation is always subject to potential correction from the canon. It is for this reason that we resist simply collapsing the text into the tradition of its interpretation and performance.

In sum: the church exists to be a living exhibit of the reality of the gospel.

the twenty-first-century evangelical church is on the verge of selling its Protestant birthright, sola scriptura, for a mess of pottage, sola cultura.

The church has become the theater of the gospel, and in this theater, there are no passive spectators, only engaged participants, acting out what is in Christ.

The church is biblical, therefore, when it seeks to embody the words in the power of the Spirit and so become a living commentary.