Membership is the church's corporate endorsement of a person's salvation. — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
“The church should not be an assembly of the self-righteous but an assembly of people who admit that they are not righteous… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
If you are not a member of the church you regularly attend, you may well be going to hell. — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
The church arises only from the gospel. And a distorted church usually coincides with a distorted gospel. — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
According to the New Testament, the church is primarily a body of people who profess and give evidence that they have been… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
Christian proclamation might make the gospel audible, but Christians living together in local congregations make the gospel visible (see John 13:34-35). The… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
As a pastor, I have the opportunity every week to share the gospel publicly in a way that most of the members… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
I think many people in the church are probably concerned that they can't answer all the questions that might come up. I… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
When a person becomes a Christian, he doesn’t just join a local church because it’s a good habit for growing in spiritual… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
A church is not a Fortune 500 company. It's not simply another nonprofit organization, nor is it a social club. In fact,… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
Friend, the church finds its life as it listens to the Word of God. It finds its purpose as it lives out… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
We can't know at any given time how God will bless our faithful witness. So the apparent numerical growth of the church… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
I heard about a pastor in a church of 5,000 people who employed two seminary students whose main responsibility was to get… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
A healthy church is not a church that's perfect and without sin. It has not figured everything out. Rather, it's a church… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
I know a girl who has become a really enthusiastic Christian. I remember meeting her several years ago. She lived in a… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
T]he church is not a place. It's not a building. It's not a preaching point. It's not a spiritual service provider. It's… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
There are times when the gospel just seems to be powerfully at work in a nation, and thousands upon thousands are converted.… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
Worldliness in the church is a lot more pervasive than a lack of passion for evangelism. Nevertheless, one of the results of… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, many of our churches calibrate their life to these nominal Christians. The predictable result is that you get fake, hypocritical churches… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
I don't have any way to control the Spirit or create revival. I pray that the Holy Spirit would move upon the… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
As long as quick numerical growth remains the primary indicator of church health, the truth will be compromised. Instead, churches must once… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
“not the writings that come from prophets inspired by the one true God revealed in Jesus Christ, then why do we find those passages… — Mark Dever Copy Share
I think it's unhelpful to suggest that the task of evangelism is essentially the responsibility of ministers. — Mark Dever Copy Share
People forget that there is a big difference between coercion and persuasion. The idea that evangelism is coercive is nonsense. — Mark Dever Copy Share
T]he church is not a place. It's not a building. It's not a preaching point. It's not a spiritual service provider. It's a people… — Mark Dever Copy Share
What really concerns me is for Christians to understand the fundamentals of evangelism in a way that is helpful in the contemporary scene. — Mark Dever Copy Share
I assume that normally the Lord will be bringing people to himself through the instrumentality of the preached word. However, we have to be… — Mark Dever Copy Share
“The motive for discipling others begins in the love of God and nothing less. He has loved us in Christ, and so we love… — Mark Dever Copy Share
If joy or urgency are missing from our presentation of the gospel, then our testimony to Christ will be missing that sort of fullness… — Mark Dever Copy Share
“Yet the Bible teaches that the local church is the natural environment for discipling. In fact, it teaches that the local church is itself… — Mark Dever Copy Share
Some believers are faithful in the way that they live, but at the end of the day, they will not share the gospel with… — Mark Dever Copy Share
We do not fail in our evangelism if we faithfully tell the gospel to someone who is not subsequently converted; we fail only if… — Mark Dever Copy Share
Once we see more of our need and understand more of what Christ has done for us, he will become more precious to us.… — Mark Dever Copy Share
Unfortunately, many of our churches calibrate their life to these nominal Christians. The predictable result is that you get fake, hypocritical churches that confuse… — Mark Dever Copy Share
![“T]he church is not a place. It's not a building. It's not a preaching point. It's not a spiritual service provider. It's a people - the new covenant, blood-bought people of God. That's why Paul said, 'Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her' (Eph. 5:25). He didn't give himself up for a…” quote by Mark Dever](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/7a4/mark-dever-3175_blood_t-he-church-is-not-a-place-it-s-not-a-bu_3297.jpg)
