Quotes by Pastors - Page 29

It is perseverance that leads to great accomplishments.
Sunday Adelaja
The gospel of the kingdom talks about perseverance.
Sunday Adelaja
What price are you willing to pay to see your church actively engaged in evangelism? Price? What do you mean by price? There is a cost for everything. One of the causes for evangelistic entropy is an unwillingness to count the cost of growth. If evangelism is really going to be a value that your church embraces, the church will have to embrace the changes that will take place when evangelism is activated in the church.
Gary Rohrmayer
The sinful nature of man is the same in every generation. Man naturally moves towards entropy. We are driven towards the carnal, mundane and the mediocre. We need a higher power, force and truth to deliver us from this entropic movement to self-destruction and pull us higher to greater values.
Sunday Adelaja
The basic teachings of the Protestants were all surrounding values, ethics and morals
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How we spend our money, however little we have, still reveals what we value.
Mark Batterson
If evangelism is really going to be a value that your church embraces, the church will have to embrace the changes that will take place when evangelism is activated in the church.
Gary Rohrmayer
People in every nation behave and respond according to the values and virtues upon which they were raised. We all are a product of our environment.
Sunday Adelaja
Aside from the straightforwardly visible curriculum, there is the hidden curriculum. This exists in the wider set of beliefs and values pupils acquire because of the way that a school is run and its teaching organized. It is about the behaviour of the teachers, the textbooks chosen, the school rules.
Gary Thomas
All forms of destructions all around us. Destruction in values, destruction in people, destruction in faith, destruction in elders, destruction in the pulpit, destruction in the youth, destruction in government, destruction in society etc.
Sunday Adelaja
There is nothing near as powerful in making a nation great like establishing values and virtues upon a nation.
Sunday Adelaja
Let’s downplay the teachings on miracles and teach the values of hard work and diligence.
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Diligence, hard work, perseverance, excellence are the values that cause things to happen.
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The value system of a country comes from the educational system.
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The value system of a country comes from the pulpit.
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It is values that tell you what your pattern and values must be on daily bases.
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Our values are as a result of the information you respond to on regular basis.
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Values come to you by what you hear.
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It is values that form our decisions.
Sunday Adelaja
The churches should be responsible for the faulty value system we now see in our society.
Sunday Adelaja
Value system also comes from the mass media of the land.
Sunday Adelaja
Value systems of a nation come from families.
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The values of a nation can be made from the pulpit of the land.
Sunday Adelaja
God calls a man, ‘man’ only if he identifies himself with God’s values ad stands for truth and justice
Sunday Adelaja
The invisible things are the value system.
Sunday Adelaja
Churches should teach people on our to value eternal virtues.
Sunday Adelaja
Eternal values are much more everlasting than the temporary physical material things.
Sunday Adelaja
Not to embrace the kingdom values is not to be motivated
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It is values that dictate your responses.
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The problem with baggage is that it affects other people's trips.
Chris Hodges
Overtime, your actions betray your heart.
Todd Stocker
Waking up is the dangerous act of worship. It's dangerous because worship is meant to produce lives fully attentive to reality as God sees it, and that's more than most of us want to deal with.
Mark Labberton
A Christian will find it most beneficial to practice secret worship, corporate worship, and family worship. They are all important for our life in Christ. They each bear a necessary weight, and they all inform one another. When my secret worship is lacking or even non-existent, then my worship in the corporate community and family will be affected. When my attendance at corporate worship is sparse, then my secret worship and family worship will suffer as well. These three spheres of worship are related, informed, and encouraged by one another, because in each I am meeting with the Lord and benefiting from His grace. As I grow in my enjoyment of the Lord in my closet, so my enjoyment of Him in corporate worship will increase. As I hear the preached Word of God in corporate worship, this informs and stimulates my heart and mind in leading my own family in worship. As I worship God with my family, my affection and love for the Lord increases, which encourages my secret and corporate worship. They all inform one another. If I am starving in one area, then as I function in the other spheres I will find that I am malnourished there as well. p. 27
Jason Helopoulos
Awe combined with intimacy is the essence of Christian worship.
J.D. Greear
The weekly worship service can be very effective in evangelism of non-Christians and in edification of Christians if it does not aim at either alone but is gospel centered and in the vernacular.
Timothy J. Keller
When something becomes so important to you that it drives your behavior and commands your emotions, you are worshipping it.
J.D. Greear
Saint Augustine defined idolatry as worshiping what should be used or using what should be worshiped
Colin S. Smith
The God you worship will shape the values you hold, and the values you hold will shape the lifestyle that you choose.
Colin S. Smith
Worship is forgetting about what's wrong with you and remembering what's right with God.
Mark Batterson
The kids (in the Jesus Movement) weren't singing for themselves. It seemed like they were singing TO Someone.
Greg Laurie
I find that when people haven't found God and do not know the new birth and the Spirit is not on them, yet they have the ancient impulse to worship something. If they're not educated they kill a chicken and put a funny thing on their head and dance around. If they are educated they write poetry.
A.W. Tozer
If there is a God, you owe him far more than a morally decent life. He deserves to be at the center of your life.
Timothy J. Keller
The ministry of the church is a genuine concern for others. We need to stop talking about it and start doing it. Rise.Rise and shine, friend. Everyone you meet today is on heaven's Most Wanted list.
Charles R. Swindoll
In many (most?) churches there are programs and activities... but so little worship. There are songs and anthems and musicals... but so little worship. There are announcements and readings and prayers... but so little worship.
Charles R. Swindoll
This philosophy of spiritual formation through the consumption of external experiences creates worship junkies — Christians who leap from one mountaintop to another, one spiritual high to another, in search of a glory that does not fade.
Skye Jethani
The priest's work, the priest's service, was understoon as an act of worship. Theis was God"s desire at Sinai - thst everybody would understand their roles as priests. Thst everybody would worship God by serving each other.
Rob Bell
If you do not worship God seven days a week, you do not worship Him on one day a week. There is no such thing known in heaven as Sunday worship unless it is accompanied by Monday worship and Tuesday worship and so on.
A.W. Tozer
The loss of psalmody in the church is one of the early indicators of the loss of faith.
Kevin Swanson
When we shift from personal purity to personal happiness, we lose biblical hope because we are not focusing on God's agenda, we are focusing on our own. God's agenda is guaranteed on our agenda is not.
James MacDonald
If counseling is to be restored to the church, affection must be restored to reflection. If counseling is to be restored to the church, delight in God must be restored to doctrines about God. Savoring Christ must be restored to seeing Christ. Tender contrition must be restored to tough conviction. Communication with God must be restored to contending for God.
James MacDonald
Reality is God-centered and all human beings are worshipers, whether or not they are conscious of this reality and its implications.
James MacDonald
Your worship is proportional to your communion with God and how you are free with Him.
Paul Gitwaza
This wasn't a legalistic play. He simply wanted more and more of God.
Matt Chandler
Adoration drives obedience, but throughout history people are prone to forget the faithfulness of God yesterday.
Matt Chandler
Worship is no longer worship when it reflects the culture around us more than the Christ within us.
A.W. Tozer
We are hardwired for glory because we are hardwired for God.
Paul David Tripp
We become what we behold.
Matt Chandler
Augustine in City of God pictures a resurrection in which the bodily systems we no longer need to protect ourselves can use energy to praise God.
Matt Chandler
I think "HALLELUJAH" translates into "HALLELUJAH" in every language out there.
Matt Chandler
As we gaze on Christ, the mind is informed, and the heart is inflamed, and the body begins to line up.
Matt Chandler