Church Quote by Bill Hybels Download Open image “Those churches have closed down or have been merged with a church that has a more positive vision.” — Bill Hybels ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Church Vision
Churches whose members fight with one another have lost their vision for the lost. — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
It's a matter of each of the two churches being very deeply enculturated in its own setting and having difficulty understand the other. — Justo L. Gonzalez Copy Share Image
People have really strong images of what church is, and it's almost certainly not the same as mine. — Sally Phillips Copy Share Image
Without a vision people and the church become self-centered. People start finding fault with one another and the church self-destructs. — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
The imminent demise of the church has been predicted since the middle of the 18th century. This is the regular secular mantra if churchgoing… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Small churches become more effective when they specialize in what they do best. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
If the church is going to make a difference, it will need to go through the "big give-up" stage. Churches will need to quit… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Churches are wonderful and beautiful, and they are vehicles for religion, but no Church can have more than a very little of the truth. — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
“A "successful" church can offer outstanding programs and ministries, but if its members are not being transformed, it is not a healthy church.” — Kevin G. Ford Copy Share Image
It is no surprise that when today's affluent young professionals return to church, they want to do it only on their own terms -… — Kathleen Neumeyer Copy Share Image
Here, the churches seemed to shrink away into eroding corners. They seem to have ceased to be essential parts of American life. They no… — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual… — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
You can live and lead small, live and lead safe, live and lead selfishly, or you can pursue a grander vision. — Bill Hybels Copy Share Image
Simplified living is about more than doing less. It’s being who God called us to be, with a wholehearted, single-minded focus. — Bill Hybels Copy Share Image
The mark of community is not the absence of conflict. It's the presence of a reconciling spirit. — Bill Hybels Copy Share Image
Jesus is not directing the angelic choir, taking long naps, or doing crossword puzzles. He is completely focused on building his church, the hope… — Bill Hybels Copy Share Image
Effective leaders do not fear passion. They welcome it. But from time to time passionate discussions digress into personal attacks, and real people get… — Bill Hybels Copy Share Image
Religion is spelled 'D-O', because it consists of the things people do try to somehow gain God's forgiveness and favor. But the problem is… — Bill Hybels Copy Share Image
If I've learned anything about prayer, it's that desperation drives discipline. — Bill Hybels Copy Share Image
The Church will never reach her full redemptive potential until men and women with the leadership gift step up and lead. — Bill Hybels Copy Share Image
People will not follow a leader with moral incongruities for long. Every time you compromise character you compromise leadership. The foundation of firm leadership… — Bill Hybels Copy Share Image
While the 1963 Birmingham church bombing is the most historic, there also was a series of church burnings in the 1990s. Recognition of the… — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
If I had my brothers I think with just a little bit of the correct marketing, I'd like to be almost exclusively in small… — Terry Bozzio Copy Share Image
Turn over the pages of history and read the damning record of the church's opposition to every advance in every field of science. . . . — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Jeff Chu's pilgrimage across America to discover his own place as a gay man in the Christian church as well as attitudes about being… — Donna Freitas Copy Share Image
God is not calling us to go to church; he is calling us to be his church, the hope of the world. — Craig Groeschel Copy Share Image
The emerging church movement has come to believe that the ultimate context of the spiritual aspirations of a follower of Jesus Christ is not… — Samir Selmanovic 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 a people… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
There could be no more powerful argument against mixing religion and government than the success of independent African American churches in placing racial segregation… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
Worship is not about personality, temperament, personal limitations, church background, or comfort. It is about God. — John Wimber Copy Share Image
Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image