In one of my college courses, we are studying the church. We have been reading articles by Dallas Willard, an American philosopher. Many of his books and teachings are on the topic of discipleship and the church. After reading what Dallas Willard was saying about the church, I wanted to research more on the topic of discipleship and the church.
Through my research, I came across hundreds of quotes about the local church. I picked 140 of the best quotes about the local church. These qoutes are from pastors, authors, Christian radio hosts, and more.
1. Andy Stanley
Jesus is the hope of the world and the local church is the vehicle of expressing that hope to the world.
-Andy Stanley
2. Bill Hybel
Nothing on earth has greater potential to change lives and carry out His kingdom work in your community, than your local church.There’s nothing like the local church when it’s working right. Its beauty is indescribable. Its power is breathtaking. Its potential is unlimited. No other organization on earth is like the church. Nothing even comes close.
-Bill Hybel
3. Mark Denver
When a person becomes a Christian, he doesn’t just join a local church because it’s a good habit for growing in spiritual maturity. He joins a local church because it’s the expression of what Christ has made him—a member of the body of Christ.
-Mark Denver
4. John Scott
The Christian life is not just our own private affair. If we have been born again into God’s family, not only has he become our Father but every other Christian believer in the world, whatever his nation or denomination, has become our brother or sister in Christ. But it is no good supposing that membership of the universal Church of Christ is enough; we must belong to some local branch of it. Every Christian’s place is in a local church. sharing in its worship, its fellowship, and its witness.
-John Scott
5. Charles Colson
The life function of [the local church] is to love the God who created it – to care for others out of obedience to Christ, to heal those who hurt, to take away fear, to restore community, to belong to one another, to proclaim the Good News while living it out. The church is the invisible made visible.
-Charles Colson
6. William Temple
The Church is the only society that exists for the benefit of those who are not its members.
-William Temple
7. James H. Aughey
The church is not a select circle of the immaculate, but a home where the outcast may come in. It is not a palace with gate attendants and challenging sentinels along the entrance-ways holding off at arm’s-length the stranger, but rather a hospital where the broken-hearted may be healed, and where all the weary and troubled may find rest and take counsel together.
-James H. Aughey
8. Billy Sunday
Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.
-Billy Sunday
9. G.K. Chesterton
We do not want a church that will move with the world. We want a church that will move the world.
-G.K. Chesterton
10. A.W. Tozer
It is scarcely possible in most places to get anyone to attend a meeting where the only attraction is God.
-A.W. Tozer
11. Leonard Ravenhill
You never have to advertise a fire. Everyone comes running when there’s a fire. Likewise, if your church is on fire, you will not have to advertise it. The community will already know it.
-Leonard Ravenhill
12. Dwight L. Moody
Church attendance is as vital to a disciple as a transfusion of rich, healthy blood to a sick man.
-Dwight L. Moody
13. Jack Wellman
Jesus is the Head of the church. He expects His body to cooperate.
-Jack Wellman
14. Warren Wiersbe
The local church is espoused to Christ, but there is always the danger of that love growing cold. Like Martha, we can be so busy working for Christ that we have no time to love Him. Christ is more concerned about what we do with Him than for Him. Labor is no substitute for love. To the public, the Ephesian church was successful; to Christ, it had fallen.
-Warren Wiersbe
15. Leonard Ravenhill
Some women will spend thirty minutes to an hour preparing for church externally (putting on special clothes and makeup, etc.). What would happen if we all spent the same amount of time preparing internally for church – with prayer and meditation?
-Leonard Ravenhill
16. Nancy Leigh DeMoss
Being disconnected from the local church, for whatever reason, is a dangerous way to live. Not only do these “ lone rangers” miss out on the blessings of functioning within the context of the body of Christ, but like lone sheep away from the safety of the flock and the watchful care of the shepherd, they are vulnerable to predators of every sort.
-Nancy Leigh Demoss
17. Tullian Tchividjian
God wants every local church to be the first place people think to go when they’ve really messed up…not the last.
-Tullian Tchividjian
18. Aiden Wilson Tozer
A local church will only be as great as its conception of God.
–Aiden Wilson Tozer
19. Philip Yancey
As I look around on Sunday morning at the people populating the pews, I see the risk that God has assumed. For whatever reason, God now reveals himself in the world not through a pillar of smoke and fire, not even through the physical body of his Son in Galilee, but through the mongrel collection that comprises my local church and every other such gathering in God’s name.
–Philip Yancey
20. Kevin DeYoung
My fear is that of all the choices people face today, the one they rarely consider is, “How can I serve most effectively and fruitfully in the local church?” I wonder if the abundance of opportunities to explore today is doing less to help make well-rounded disciples of Christ and more to help Christians avoid long term responsibility and have less long-term impact.
–Kevin DeYoung
21. Leonard Ravenhill
When there’s something in the Bible that churches don’t like, they call it ‘legalism.’
-Leonard Ravenhill
22. David Platt
If you claim to be a follower of Christ, I encourage you to consider your present commitment to a local church.
–David Platt
23. Rick Warren
Many believe one can be a “good Christian” without joining (or even attending) a local church, but God would strongly disagree.
–Rick Warren
24. Billy Graham
Many churches of all persuasions are hiring research agencies to poll neighborhoods, asking what kind of church they prefer. Then the local churches design themselves to fit the desires of the people. True faith in God that demands selflessness is being replaced by trendy religion that serves the selfish.
-Billy Graham
25. Dwight L. Moody
A man who covers up the cross though he may be an intellectual man, and draw large crowds will have no ilk there, and his church will be but a gilded sepulcher.
-Dwight L. Moody
26. Billy Sunday
Christianity means a lot more than church membership.
-Billy Sunday
27. Johnathan Falwell
As we witness our religious freedoms being lost and our congregations getting itchy, it is time for our churches to again become relevant within our culture.
-Jonathan Falwell
28. Charles Spurgeon
In proportion as a church is holy, in that proportion will its testimony for Christ be powerful.
-Charles Spurgeon
29. Jim Cymbala
No church, including the one I pastor, should be measured by its attendance.
-Jim Cymbala
30. John Hagee
A church can be unified in one of two ways. You can freeze together, as the Church of the Frozen Chosen; or you can melt together with the fire of the Holy Spirit.
-John Hagee
31. E.M. Bounds
Men are God’s method. The church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men.
-E.M. Bounds
32. Billy Sunday
Too many churches are little more than four walls and a roof.
-Billy Sunday
33. Charles Spurgeon
The most useful members of a church are usually those who would be doing harm if they were not doing good.
-Charles Spurgeon
34. John Hagee
Do you ever wonder what it would be like to visit a New Testament church service? I imagine it would be a far cry from our stately sanctuaries with their crystal chandeliers and misty-mauve carpets.
-John Hagee
35. Lester Roloff
The only way to build a church, if you have a Bible church, is to preach out of the Bible, teach out of the Bible, read out of the Bible.
-Lester Roloff
36. F.B. Meyer
The church which is not a missionary church will be a missing church when Jesus comes.
-F.B. Meyer
37. Charles Hodge
The Church, however, is a self-governing society, distinct from the State, having its officers and laws, and, therefore, an administrative government of its own
-Charles Hodge
38. Charles Spurgeon
Alas! Much has been done of late to promote the production of dwarfish Christians. Poor, sickly believers turn the church into a hospital, rather than an army. 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!
-Charles Spurgeon
39. A.B. Simpson
The chief danger of the Church today is that it is trying to get on the same side as the world, instead of turning the world upside down. Our Master expects us to accomplish results, even if they bring opposition and conflict. Anything is better than compromise, apathy, and paralysis. God, give to us an intense cry for the old-time power of the Gospel and the Holy Ghost!
-A.B. Simpson
40. Charles Hodge
The right of the people to a substantive part in the government of the Church is recognized and sanctioned by the apostles in almost every conceivable way.
-Charles Hodge
41. Victoria Thomas Pollar
We must seek to ask God where we fit in and where He would have us serve.
–Victoria Thomas Pollar
42. Ray C. Stedman
If you trust yourself to walk in the light of your own conscience, uninstructed or little instructed by the Word of God, you will end up doing things that you are deeply and sincerely convinced are right. But they may be terribly hurtful and destructive within the Church.
-Ray C. Stedman
43. Albert Mohler
I want to assist churches and to assist pastors in training pastors. But, after fourteen years of service in this capacity, I am absolutely certain that the finest theological seminary on earth is absolutely incompetent at replicating the actual life of a Gospel congregation. I want to train a generation of pastors who will train pastors, and I want to help them in that task.
-Albert Mohler
44. A.B. Simpson
The Christian that is bound by his own horizon, the church that lives simply for itself, is bound to die a spiritual death and sink into stagnancy and corruption. We never can thank God enough for giving us not only a whole Gospel to believe, but a whole world to give it to.
-A.B. Simpson
45. Thomas Fuller
It is a shame when the church itself is a cemetery, where the living sleep above the ground, as the dead do beneath.
-Thomas Fuller
46. David Jeremiah
Every believer is commanded to be plugged in to a local church.
-David Jeremiah
47. Bill Hybels
The local church is the hope of the world, and its future rests primarily in the hands of its leaders.
-Bill Hybels
48. C.J. Mahaney
Sunday is the best day of the week because we celebrate the risen Christ of the cross in the local church, the dearest place on earth.
-C.J. Mahaney
49. Dallas Willard
Contemporary American churches in particular do not require following Christ in his example, spirit, and teachings as a condition of membership-either of entering into or continuing in fellowship of a denomination or a local church…. Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have not yet decided to follow Christ.
-Dallas Willard
50. Reinhard Bonnke
“Evangelism and the local church are inseparable. It’s like the Good Samaritan seeking an inn for the one he rescued.
–Reinhard Bonnke
51. Peter Forsyth
The local church is the outcrop of the church universal.
–Peter Forsyth
52. George H. Miley
I spent twenty years of my life trying to recruit people out of local churches and into missions structures so that they could be involved in fulfilling God’s global mission. Now I have another idea. Let’s take God’s global mission and put it right in the middle of the local church!
-George H Miley.
53. Bill Hybels
There is nothing like the local church when the local church is working right.
-Bill Hybels
54. Brennan Manning
The gospel of grace nullifies our adulation of televangelists, charismatic superstars, and local church heroes. It obliterates the two-class citizenship theory operative in many American churches. For grace proclaims the awesome truth that all is gift. All that is good is ours, not by right, but by the sheer bounty of a gracious God.
–Brennan Manning
55. Lee Strobel
Apologetics has an important place in the local church as we seek to influence our communities for Christ in an increasingly skeptical culture.
–Lee Strobel
56. Bill Hybels
The local church is the hope of the world.
–Bill Hybels
57. Andy Stanley
If you are a local church or non-profit, you live and die with volunteers.
–Andy Stanley
58. James Montgomery Boice
Preaching is the primary means of growth for the local church. There is a great deal of debate about this in our day, but it is the preaching of the Word that God most uses to build up a church, not only numerically but above all (and far more importantly) in spiritual depth and understanding of the people who make up the congregation.
-James Montgomery Boice
59. David Penman
No local church can afford to go without the encouragement and nourishment that will come to it by sending away its best people.
–David Penman
60. Derwin L. Gray
Local churches are ten times more segregated than the neighborhoods they are in and they are twenty times more segregated than the schools than the nearby schools.
–Derwin L. Gray
61. Andy Stanley
Every local church has a leader but it seems so few local churches are being led.
–Andy Stanley
62. Wayne Mack
If…we do not think that a local church is worthy of joining, why should we be considered worthy of serving in it?
–Wayne Mack
63. Aiden Wilson Tozer
It is a high Christian privilege to pray for one another within each local church body and then for other believers throughout the world. As a Christian minister, I have no right to preach to people I have not prayed for. That is my strong conviction.
–Aiden Wilson Tozer
64. Charles Spurgeon
The condition of the church may be very accurately gauged by its prayer meetings. So is the prayer meeting a grace-ometer, and from it we may judge of the amount of divine working among a people. If God be near a church, it must pray. And if He be not there, one of the first tokens of His absence will be slothfulness in prayer.
-Charles Spurgeon
65. Wayne Mack
The church, as defined by the Word of God, is a group of Christians who dedicate themselves to meeting together for the regular preaching of the Word of God; who submit themselves to biblical eldership; who regularly celebrate the ordinances of the church (baptism and the Lord’s Supper); and who practice and submit themselves to church discipline as laid out in Scripture.
-Wayne Mack
67. Chuck Colson
The church’s job is to equip the saints for works of service in the world.
-Chuck Colson
68. Tim Keller
Churches that are filled with self-righteous, exclusive, insecure, angry, moralistic people are extremely unattractive. Their public pronouncements are often highly judgmental, while internally such churches experience many bitter conflicts, splits, and divisions. When one of their leaders has a moral lapse, the churches either rationalize it and denounce the leader’s critics, or else they scapegoat him. Millions of people raised in or near these kinds of churches reject Christianity at an early age or in college largely because of their experience. For the rest of their lives, then, they are inoculated against Christianity. If you are a person who has been disillusioned by such churches, anytime anyone recommends Christianity to you, you assume they are calling you to adopt ‘religion.’ Pharisees and their unattractive lives leave many people confused about the real nature of Christianity.
-Tim Keller
69. Harold Percy
People who move toward the church do so for two major reasons: to learn about God and to find some guidance and direction for living.
-Harold Percy
70. Rick Warren
He created the church to meet your five deepest needs: a purpose to live for, people to live with, principles to live by, a profession to live out, and power to live on. There is no other place on earth where you can find all five of these benefits in one place.
-Rick Warren
71. Nicky Gumbel
Stop looking for the perfect church. It does not exist. Even if it did exist, the moment you or I joined it, it would no longer be perfect.
-Nicky Gumbel
72. Mary Neal
Churches provide a place of gathering for people who share common beliefs, support and encouragement for each other in faith, a place to find insight into and teaching about God’s Word, and they provide a time and place where people can leave the world behind and focus only on their spiritual relationship with God.
-Mary Neal
73. Charles R. Swindoll
When a church is spending more of its budget on media than shepherding, something is out of whack. We have gotten things twisted around.
-Charles R. Swindoll
74. Joyce Meyers
Do you look forward to going to church, or is it something you do out of obligation?
-Joyce Meyers
75. Catherine Pulsifer
Find a church where you can have a relationship with God, rather than one where the main focus is on the rituals of the church.
-Catherine Pulsifer
76. Greg Laurie
Just as you must eat, drink, and breathe to live, you must read the Bible, pray, and be involved in a church to stay spiritually alive and vital. You never will outgrow these things.
-Greg Laurie
77. Andy Stanley
People are not on a truth quest; they are on a happiness quest. They will continue to attend your church – even if they don’t share your beliefs – as long as they find the content engaging and helpful.
-Andy Stanley
78. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The Church is the Church only when it exists for others- not dominating, but helping and serving. It must tell men of every calling what it means to live for Christ, to exist for others.
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer
79. Charles Spurgeon
Nobody can do as much damage to the church of God as the man who is within its walls, but not within its life.
-Charles Spurgeon
80. Vince Antonucci
I encourage you to look for a church that teaches that Jesus is the only way to heaven (because he is) and that the Bible is the Word of God (because it is), that will allow you to get connected with other believers (because you need that), and that you’d feel comfortable inviting your non-believing friends to (because they need that).
-Vince Antonucci
81. Archbishop Gloria Grace
The purpose of the Church therefore, is to continue to carry out this great commission of Christ-to take the gospel to every living creature in every part of the world.
-Gloria Grace
82. Michael Caputo
The people whose love will grow cold will make the terrible mistake of turning the church into a social club, rather than a treatment centre.
-Micahel Caputo
83. Karen Powell
I yearn for the day when we as the church are known for what we are for instead of what we are against. I pray that the long list of “what the church is for” includes remarkable Christ-centered care for the least, the last, and the lost.
-Karen Powell
84. A.W. Tozer
If the envious, the defamers and the backbiters were taken out of the average church, there would be revival overnight.
-A.W. Tozer
85. Sarah Cunningham
It can be helpful to see our relationship to the church as being like a lifelong relationship to a spouse or even a parent, child, or sibling; to view it as a relationship that will include both “for better” and “for worse,” and expect to stay committed anyway.
-Sarah Cunningham
86. Andy Stanley
One of the primary reasons churches are empty is because church leaders love their models more than they love people.
-Andy Stanley
87. John Yoder
The church seeks to help form people who can risk being peaceful in a violent world, risk being kind in a competitive world, risk being faithful in an age of cynicism, risk being gentle among those who admire the tough, risk love when it may not be returned, because we have the confidence that in Christ we have been reborn into a new reality.
-John Yoder
88. Rick Warren
Servants think of ministry as an opportunity, not an obligation. They enjoy helping people, meeting needs, and doing ministry.
-Rick Warren
89. Brian Johnson
A growing church will have devoted learners, and that means they are those who put it into practice.
-Brian Johnson
90. K. P. Yohannan
Church history clearly shows that when the Word of God is not taught and commitment to doctrinal purity is not maintained, the Church enters into a dark age.
–K. P. Yohannan
91. Brittany Ann
Apparently, if every believer regularly tithed 10 percent of their income, the church could end global hunger, eliminate deaths from preventable diseases, end illiteracy, solve world water and sanitation issues, fully fund overseas missions work AND expand their ministries both at home and abroad.
-Brittany Ann
92. Gary Goodell
To put it bluntly, we find ourselves occupying the middle ground between the Kingdom of Heaven and the world of the Church.
-Gary Goodell
93. Author Unknown
A reading church is an informed church;
-Unknown
An informed church is an interested church;
An interested church is an acting church;
An acting church is a serving church;
A serving church is a Christian church.
94. Rev. David Weyrick
But God may be calling you to tithe and test Him in questionable economic times. You can do that. God may be calling you to help in your church in some way. You can do that.
-Rev. David Weyrick
95. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The church must share in the secular problems of ordinary human life, not dominating, but helping and serving.
-Dietruch Bonhoeffer
96. Brian Steenhoek
The Church is Jesus Christ, and we are the body of the Church. Jesus is our Shepherd and we need to view Him as our role model.
-Brian Steenhoek
97. Dr. Stephen Gammon
I thank God for teaching me as a child that church is not merely an organization we join, or a place of worship we go to when it is convenient. Church is the body of Christ
-Dr. Stephen Gammon
98. Michael Caputo
How do you see your church? Do you value the teachings you get? Do you implement them in your lives?
-Michael Caputo
99. Lester Roloff
Churches become poor if they become rich and care not for the poor.
-Lester Roloff
100. Jonathan Edwards
We cannot believe that the church of God is already possessed of all that light which God intends to give it; nor that all Satan’s lurking places have already been found out.
-Jonathan Edwards
101. Charles Hodge
As the Church is the aggregate of believers, there is an intimate analogy between the experience of the individual believer, and of the Church as a whole.
-Charles Hodge
102. Jack Hyles
A church doesn’t necessarily need space to grow; it just needs the power of God.
-Jack Hyles
103. Henry Ward Beecher
The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
-Henry Ward Beecher
104. A.J. Gossip
A basic trouble is that most Churches limit themselves unnecessarily by addressing their message almost exclusively to those who are open to religious impression through the intellect, whereas … there are at least four other gateways — the emotions, the imagination, the aesthetic feeling, and the will — through which they can be reached
-A.J. Gossip
105. Dwight L. Moody
The Spirit of God first imparts love; he next inspires hope, and then gives liberty; and that is about the last thing we have in many of our churches.
-Dwight L. Moody
106. Philip Yancey
All too often the church holds up a mirror reflecting back the society around it, rather than a window revealing a different way.
-Philip Yancey
107. Thomas Manton
Divisions in the church always breed atheism in the world.
-Thomas Manton
108. Wayne Mack
Scripture speaks very clearly to the fact that identification with God’s people in a formal, public way was considered essential in…New Testament times… A careful study of the New Testament doesn’t reveal even a hint of any believer who was truly saved, but not part of a local church.
-Wayne Mack
109. Walter J. Chantry
There is something childish and legalistic about churches in which all of the saints observe precisely the same standards. When all lives begin to sink into the same mould of denial and exercise of liberty, something is amiss.
-Walter J. Chantry
110. Theodore Epp
Bible-believing churches and pastors could well apply this principle of pointing out faults without offending. We need to be careful that we do not let a carnal spirit divide us and hurt us so the Lord finds it difficult to use us.
-Theodore Epp
111. Charles Spurgeon
A church in the land without the Spirit is rather a curse than a blessing. If you have not the Spirit of God, Christian worker, remember that you stand in somebody else’s way; you are a fruitless tree standing where a fruitful tree might grow.
-Charles Spurgeon
112. G.K. Chesterton
The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-G.K. Chesterton
113. John Hagee
The church today is riddled with fad doctrines and new sounds that distract from the clear message of the Great commission in the New Testament. Any message that attracts you which does not bring glory to Christ is the message of a seducing spirit and the man giving it is in deception.
-Jon Hagee
114. Francis Schaeffer
Each generation of the church in each setting has the responsibility of communicating the gospel in understandable terms, considering the language and thought-forms of that setting.
-Francis Schaeffer
115. Ken Ham
I have met so many young people who do not see the church as relevant and do not consider the Bible a real book of history that can be trusted.
-Ken Ham
116. Tim Keller
I concluded that an understanding of the biblical marks of a healthy church was absolutely foundational and necessary, but that something more should be said if Gospel ministry was going to be productive.
-Tim Keller
117. Thomas Fuller
Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves.
-Thomas Fuller
118. Francis Schaeffer
Tell me what the world is saying today, and I’ll tell you what the church will be saying in seven years.
-Francis Schaeffer
119. Jim Cymbala
The reason “other churches” don’t grow: “Jim, the truth is I couldn’t have a real prayer meeting in my church. I’d be embarrassed at the smallness of the crowd…”
-Jim Cymbala
120. Leonard Ravenhill
This much is sure in all churches, forgetting party labels; the smallest meeting numerically is the prayer-meeting. If weak in prayer we are weak everywhere.
-Leonard Ravenhill
121. Charles Spurgeon
I do not think the devil cares how many churches you build, if only you have lukewarm preachers and people in them.
-Charles Spurgeon
122. John Calvin
Wherever we find the Word of God surely preached and heard, and the sacraments administered according to the institution of Christ, there, it is not to be doubted, is a church of God
-John Calvin
123. Thomas Watson
Everyone that hangs around the court does not speak with the king.
-Thomas Watson
124. A.A. Hodge
A church has no right to make anything a condition of membership which Christ has not made a condition of salvation.
-A.A. Hodge
125. Adrian Rogers
The church is not the way to heaven; the church is the sign that points to heaven.
-Adrian Rogers
126. Jim Cymbala
The Bible does say, “My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations.” Preaching, music, the reading of the Word–these things are fine–but they must never override prayer as the defining mark of God’s dwelling.
-Jim Cymbala
127. A.W. Tozer
The church that is not jealously protected by mighty intercession and sacrificial labors will before long become the abode of every evil bird and the hiding place for unsuspected corruption. The creeping wilderness will soon take over that church that trusts in its own strength and forgets to watch and pray.
-A.W. Tozer
128. Billy Sunday
Trying to run a church without revivals can be done when you can run a gasoline engine on buttermilk.
-Billy Sunday
129. Chuck Colson
The greatest single scandal in evangelical assemblies, and I can really only speak for that, is the low regard individual Christians have for the church.
-Chuck Colson
130. Wesley L. Duewel
It takes more than a busy church, a friendly church, or even an evangelical church to impact a community for Christ. It must be a church ablaze, led by leaders who are ablaze for God.
-Welsey L. Duewel
131. Jim Cymbala
God nowhere asks anyone to have a large church. 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.
-Jim Cymbala
132. Billy Sunday
There wouldn’t be so many non-church goers if there were not so many non-going churches.
-Billy Sunday
133. C.S. Lewis
The perfect church service would be one we were almost unaware of; our attention would have been on God.
-C.S. Lewis
134. Chuck Colson
I don’t think the job of the church is to make people happy. I think it’s to make them holy.
-Chuck Colson
135. Wayne Mack
Church membership is not an incidental or optional matter for the Christian. Rather, it’s an essential and important aspect of the Christian life. 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.
-Wayne Mack
136. E.M. Bounds
How much of these destructive elements, esteemed by men, does the devil bring into the church, until all the high, unworldly and holy aims, and heavenly objects of the church are retired and forgotten?
-E.M. Bounds
137. Dwight L. Moody
We have in our churches a great deal of prayer, but I think it would be a good thing if we had a praise meeting occasionally. If we could only get people to praise God for what He has done, it would be a good deal better than asking Him continually for something.
-Dwight L. Moody
138. Alistair Begg
A good church is a Bible-centered church. Nothing is as important as this–not a large congregation, a witty pastor, or tangible experiences of the Holy Spirit.
-Alistair Begg
139. Jim Cymbala
The Bible does not say we should aim at numbers but rather urges us faithfully to proclaim God’s message in the boldness of the Holy Spirit. This will build God’s church God’s way.
-Jim Cymbala
140. Duncan Campbell
The Kingdom of God is not going to be advanced by our churches becoming filled with men, but by men in our churches becoming filled with God.
-Duncan Campbell
I hope you learned more about the local church through these qoutes. We can be people who are dedicated to serving our church. If your not currently serving in your church, reach out to them and see where you can help. Let’s be Christians who serve one another with love to bring glory to God.
Whoever serves me must follow me; and where I am, my servant also will be. My Father will honor the one who serves me.
— John 12:26