Christendom Quote by Alan Hirsch

For decades the popular notion has been that if the church was going to reach the culture it first needed to connect with the…

— John MacArthur

We sometimes idealize the early church and want our churches to go back to the simple, old ways. We need to carefully read the…

— Jerry B. Jenkins

The short-term impact is that people are encouraged to give the Church another look. It's up to the liveliest parts of the Church -…

— George Weigel

Probably after Vietnam and Watergate, there was an increasing distrust of institutions, so that Jesus was still in, but the institutional church was no…

— Eddie Gibbs

If outside forces and culture were the reasons behind declining and non-influential churches, we would likely have no churches today. The greatest periods of…

— Thom S. Rainer

It is an absolutely unique success of the church community to have introduced such an epoch-making change, in just a few years, without having…

— Hans Kung

Power corrupts. If the Church is given too much power, it will become corrupted. So to keep the Church in line with the teachings…

— Ali Sina

Christendom is not primarily a mental construct. It is above all a fact, indeed the longest historical experience the Church has had. Hence the…

— Gustavo Gutiérrez

Probably the greatest tragedy of the church throughout its long and checkered history has been its constant tendency to conform to the prevailing culture…

— John Stott

We know the Church wasn't born 200 years ago. It's encouraging to see some of the post-denominational churches actually wanting to reconnect with the…

— Shane Claiborne

“Generally speaking, the reason the church fails to have a more positive, transforming influence on our culture is that we do not fully grasp…

— Philip Graham Ryken

The Church seems to totter to its fall, almost all life extinct. On this occasion, any complaisance would be criminal which told you, whose…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson