Quotes by Pastors - Page 31

A clarion call to the 7000 remnants who are yet to bow their knees to Baal, to arise and come out of the wilderness to take charge of the guard that would lead their Nations and church to the promise land
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We are not even going to throw the challenge of changing a whole generation before the modern day church. This generation of believers don’t even know what that means
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Whenever God allows a mass blindness to cover his church, it is not out of stupidity, it is out of divine providence
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Contemporary Christian church would normally think that things are impossible
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Most people that I know who go to church actually go there to twist the arms of God so that he can get all the discomfort away from them.
Sunday Adelaja
Your trials equal the power of God that works in you. If your battles are intense, then what God has deposited in you is deep.
Paul Gitwaza
Sometimes the church talks about singleness as if it were similar to being chosen for Hufflepuff by the Magic Sorting Hat in Harry Potter. The good news is that you still are at Hogwarts, but the bad news is that pretty much everyone else there will avoid you and make it clear they feel sad for you and would never, ever want to be you.
Sammy Rhodes
Training is an active, dynamic process lived out daily in all areas of life- not a rote exercise in memorizing verses and going to church every week.
Craig Groeschel
It has been a great source of sadness to me to see two schools of thought within the evangelical church over many decades. Those who come glorying in manifestations of power sometimes seem dismissive of those whom they regard as “cold theologians.” I once heard a man speaking at a large conference say that theology was the enemy of the church and if only we could abandon doctrinal perspectives, the church would be a happier place. What tragic nonsense! We also see and hear those who love theological insight and savour the doctrines of Scripture expressing equally dismissive remarks about Christians who are enjoying God’s power, as though they were mere children preoccupied with experience. How I long for a recovery of true biblical Christianity where the apostle Paul, who wrote the book of Romans, also raised the dead! It seems that profound theology and great signs and wonders happily cohabited in Paul’s life and ministry.
Terry Virgo
When did we, as Christ followers, start to think that the church exists for us? When did we forget that we are the church? And that we're here for the world?
Craig Groeschel
God wants the church to become an authority to bring order, righteousness and purity to the country
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The church is called to activate the position of the believers in saving the nation for God’s glory
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The church should become a place of regeneration and reformation
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God allows problem to come so that the church can discover and declare Her position
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The redemption of a country depends on the position of the church
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If the church doesn’t start fighting corruption, it will keep flourishing in the country
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The church’s task is to open people’s eyes so that they can see that there is nothing higher than God
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Representatives of the churches should help guide people in resolving their crisis
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The church must become a breeding ground for deliverers
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The church is called by God to become God’s agent of deliverance in every nation
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For church buildings not to be enough is to build and equip church members to send them out
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Not to have a confused church is to teach paramount importance of the truth
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For irrelevancy to be cancelled in the church, let kingdom priority and pursuit be restored
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Cooperate expression of your church life means a lot
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Those of us who are concerned about the 'church-less Christian' phenomenon ... must first look at ourselves and ask to what degree *we* have contributed to the conditions that tempt some to hit eject on the local church.
Scott Sauls
The church must integrate into the environment
Sunday Adelaja
Why is the church failing so miserably in impacting the nations of the earth?
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We are members of the Church of Christ
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Pastors are over-extended taking care of a few hundred sheep in their church
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The church must be involved in all the seven spheres of life extending the virtues and principles of the kingdom of God
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God designed the church to facilitate the increase of his kingdom
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The church today has reduced the Christians to a level that has made them to be too weak to make anything happen.
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When the kingdom leaves the church, the church stops living for herself
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Some goes to church to seek prosperity
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The end-time church will be a worshipper of God alone
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Does the church offer answers for the complexions of 21st century problems?
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To be successful, you must leave the church walls behind and go out
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God’s promise is to save the church and all who loves him
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The church must be involved in all seven spheres of life
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The church’s main task is to fuel having a fulfilled destiny
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The church is to help its members mature in Christ’s calling
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In this current generation, the church is not prospering in its mandate to extend kingdom principles throughout culture
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It is useful to reflect that the word 'liturgy' did not originate in church or worship settings. In the Greek world it referred to publish service, what a citizen did for the community. As the church used the word in relation to worship, ti kept this 'public service' quality - working for the community on behalf of or following orders from God. As we worship God, revealed personally as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in our Holy Scriptures, we are not doing something apart form or away from the non-Scripture=reading world; we do it for the world - bringing all creation and all history before God, presenting our bodies and all the beauties and needs of humankind before God in praise and intercession, penetrating and serving the world for whom Christ died in the strong name of the Trinity.
Eugene H. Peterson
Liturgy puts us to work along with all the others who have been and are being put to work in the world by and with Jesus following our spiritually-forming text. Liturgy keeps us in touch with all the action that has been and is being generated by the Spirit as given witness in the biblical text. Liturgy prevents the narrative form of Scripture from being reduced to private individualized consumption.Understood this way, 'liturgical' has little to do with choreography in the chancel or an aesthetics of the sublime. It is obedient, participatory, listening to Holy Scripture in the company of the holy community through time (our two-thousand years of responding to this text) and in space (our friends in christ all over the world). High-church Anglicans, revivalistic Baptists, hands-in-the-air praising charismatics, and Quakers sitting in a bare room in silence are all required to read and live this text liturgically, participating in the holy community's reading of Holy Scripture. there is nothing 'churchy' or elitist about it; it is a vast and dramatic 'story-ing,' making sure that we are taking our place in the story and letting everyone else have their parts in the story also, making sure that we don't leave anything or anyone out of the story. Without sufficient liturgical support and structure we are very apt to edit the story down to fit our individual tastes and predispositions.
Eugene H. Peterson
As we open up our church meetings to God's power, they will not always follow a predetermined schedule or order. Who can outline what God might have in mind?
Jim Cymbala
Any church that emphasizes on miracles is simply telling His members that they don’t need to qualify but depend on the supernatural power.
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We have compromised the integrity of the church if we only emphasise on miracles.
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Any church that is overly emphasizing the role of miracles is encouraging his members to be indolent.
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Any church that over emphasises miracles is encouraging laziness.
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The church that emphasises on miracles are indirectly preaching that merit does not mater.
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There is error in a church when miracles are made the only thing.
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Liturgy is the means that the church uses to keep baptized Christians in living touch with the entire living holy community as it participates formationally in Holy Scripture. I want to use the word 'liturgy' to refer to this intent and practice of the church insofar as it pulls everything in and out of the sanctuary into a life of worship, situates everything past and present coherently as participation in the revelation written for us in Scripture. Instead of limiting liturgy to the ordering of the community in discrete acts of worship, I want to use it in this large and comprehensive way, the centuries-deep and continents-wide community, spread out in space and time, as Christians participate in actions initiated and formed by the words in this book - our entire existence understood liturgically, that is connectedly in the context of the three personal Father, Son, and Holy Spirit and furnished with the text of the Holy Scripture.
Eugene H. Peterson
The task of liturgy is to order the life of the holy community following the text of Holy Scripture. It consists of two movements. First it gets us into the sanctuary, the place of adoration and attention, listening and receiving and believing before God. There is a lot involved, all the parts of our lives ordered to all aspects of the revelation of God in Jesus.Then it gets us out of the sanctuary into the world into places of obeying and loving ordering our lives as living sacrifices in the world to the glory of God. There is a lot involved, all the parts of our lives out on the street participating in the work of salvation.
Eugene H. Peterson
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
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
The Church was not left in this world to perfume the dung-heap of fallen humanity, but to take out, one by one, those who will be saved from the coming destruction.
Donald Grey Barnhouse
In post-Christendom, the church is that community of people who look to discover what God is actively doing in the world around them and then join themselves to that work. The church is that community of people gathered around Jesus Christ in order to participate in his life and incarnate it into the context where he has placed them.
Tim Keel
If Christianity was only about finding a group of people to live life with who shared openly their search for God and allowed anyone regardless of behavior to seek too and who collectively lived by faith to make the world a little more like Heaven would you be interested ’ ‘Hell yes ’ was his reply. He continued ‘Are there churches like that
Hugh Halter & Matt Smay
Everybody gets to play.
John Wimber
To be effective the preacher's message must be alive; it must alarm, arouse, challenge; it must be God's present voice to a particular people.
A.W. Tozer