“The early church didn't experience explosive growth in the face of relentless persecution for believing the resurrection was a metaphor.” — David D. Flowers Copy Share Image
“How can we have revival when we value a book the early Church didn’t have over the Holy Spirit they did have?” — Kris Vallotton Copy Share Image
Much of today’s church relies more on a book the early church didn't have, than the Holy Spirit they did. — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
The early Church was married to poverty, prisons and persecutions. Today, the church is married to prosperity, personality, and popularity. — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
The early church didn’t say, ‘Look what the world is coming to!’ They said, ‘Look what has come into the world’! — Carl F. H. Henry Copy Share Image
The early Church had nothing but the Old Testament. The New Testament lies hidden in the Old; the Old Testament lies open… — Randall Terry Copy Share Image
We sometimes idealize the early church and want our churches to go back to the simple, old ways. We need to carefully… — Jerry B. Jenkins Copy Share Image
Women are the first witnesses to the resurrection and pillars of the early church. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
If the church of today does not recapture the sacrificial spirit of the early church, it will lose its authentic ring, forfeit… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It was a real surprise to me to come across the evidence that Christianity might once have been a danced religion. Certainly,… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
The more we study the early Church, the more we realize that it was a society of ministers. About the only similarity… — D. Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
I want people to help me reanchor the church to undeniable, mind-boggling, culture-shifting demonstration of compassion and generosity. Because, generosity was the… — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
There is not much we can say with absolute confidence about the early church, but we can be fairly sure that the… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
“The evidence of the early church suggests that the community of followers ate together regularly and often, and that in their eating… — Norman Wirzba Copy Share Image
I had always owned them to be the Word of God... the careful reading of the Acts afforded me a practical picture… — John Nelson Darby Copy Share Image
Certain things happened in the early church. Women who had never had any freedom suddenly have the ability to stand up and… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
“...the early church fathers provide abundant evidence that gifts such as prophecy and miracles continued in their own time, even if not… — Craig Keener Copy Share Image
The early church was strikingly different from the culture around it in this way - the pagan society was stingy with its… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
I write about this in The Last Temple, the early church knew that Christ has risen from the dead, and so they… — Hank Hanegraaff Copy Share Image
The church is like any large corporation in one respect. In its early days, either the early church or the early years… — Chris Lowney Copy Share Image
In the near future we will not be looking back at the early church with envy because of the great exploits of… — Rick Joyner Copy Share Image
“Do you have a weekly prayer meeting in your church? Your answer reflects how spiritual you are and how much you are… — Mack Tomlinson Copy Share Image
“Too often scholars have thought and even suggested that what happened during and after Constantine was that the church sought to replace… — Ben Witherington III Copy Share Image
Saints of the early church reaped great harvests in the field of prayer and found the mercy seat to be a mine… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“In The Ante-Nicene Fathers (8 vols.) the reader will find most of the writings of the Early Church under the Pagan Empire,… — George Hodges Copy Share Image
