Search results for "state of the church" - 106 results
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Ed Stetzer
72% of the un-churched agreed that the church is full of hypocrites. There is something wrong with the church when the world so readily identifies us as hypocrites. 44% indicated that Christians, "get on my nerves". The things we have become and the ways we have learned to live have kept people from embracing the cross. People are tripping over the church on their way to the cross.
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John Piper
Let me close with an illustration of a man who lived and died in successful warfare against the unbelief of impatience. His name was Charles Simeon. He was a pastor in the Church of England from 1782 to 1836 at Trinity Church in Cambridge. He was appointed to his church by a bishop against the will of the people. They opposed him not because he was a bad preacher but because he was an evangelical—he believed the Bible and called for conversion and holiness and world missions. For 12 years the people refused to let him give the afternoon Sunday sermon. And during that time they boycotted the Sunday morning service and locked their pews so that no one could sit in them. He preached to people in the aisles for 12 years! How did he last? In this state of things I saw no remedy but faith and patience. [Note the linking of faith and patience!] The passage of Scripture which subdued and controlled my mind was this, "The servant of the Lord must not strive." [Note: The weapon in the fight for faith and patience was the Word!] It was painful indeed to see the church, with the exception of the aisles, almost forsaken; but I thought that if God would only give a double blessing to the congregation that did attend, there would on the whole be as much good done as if the congregation were doubled and the blessing limited to only half the amount. This comforted me many, many times, when without such a reflection, I should have sunk under my burthen. (Charles Simeon, by H.C.G. Moule, p. 39)
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Viktor Frankl
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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Mark Driscoll
When it comes to church size, a few things are important to remember. First a church must determine what size they would like to become and start acting like a church of that size if the hope to achieve that goal. Second a church must accept its size and not allow people to demand that they receive the type of treatment they would receive at a church of whatever size they prefer.
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Bar gets struck down by lightening and sues the church next door who had prayed that God would close the bar. The bar sued the church and the church denied all responsibility and connection to the bars destruction. The judge read the plaintiff’s complaint and the defendant’s reply at the opening hearing and said, “I don’t know how I’m going to decide this, but it appears from the paperwork that we have a bar owner who believes in the power of prayer, and an church congregation that doesn’t.
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Mark Driscoll
Be very careful in church planting be careful to protect the line between work and family particularly when you are starting the church in your home. Be very discerning when you have random people hanging out at your house, and some could be previous sex offenders. Plus you also have the "What about Bob?" syndrome. There is always that one "Bob" guy in every church. Practice hospitality, but do it with great wisdom and discernment. People will molest your kids in the name of church planting.
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Mark Driscoll
Over the years, I've just accepted that if I do not quickly open the back door when God is trying to run people out of our Church, I am working against God by keeping sick people in my Church so they can infect others. Indeed the Church is a body and one of the most important parts is the colon. Like the human body, any church body without a colon is destined for sickness that leads to death
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Perry Noble (Newspring Church, South Carolina)
"The church is the body of Christ, and if you close the back door of the body you end up with a constipated church!"
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Richard Baxter
The saints’ rest is the most happy state of a Christian; or, it is the perfect endless enjoyment of God by the perfected saints, according to the measure of their capacity, to which their souls arrive at death, and both soul and body most fully after the resurrection and final judgment.
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Paul
The Christian good news majors in 're-' words: rebirth, redemption, reconciliation, renewal and finally re-creation. Atonement is the process and state of restoration. In a narrower sene, the appearing of Jesus - his person and work, his alienation in death - introducers a radical new beginning for human hopes.
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