Asking Quote by Billy Graham

Ordinary people - churches, too - have a role to force politicians to respond. Governments are not impressed with theories, but governments are impressed…

— Allan Boesak

I believe that for lots of churches and religious institutions, their main focus on the development of faith among parishioners needs to spread to…

— Geoffrey Canada

“But not all places are the same. If a church is located in suburbia, where families are the predominant social circle, then church-growth ideas…

— Verlon Fosner

God wants every local church to be the first place people think to go when they've really messed up...not the last.

— Tullian Tchividjian

Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.

— John Ortberg

“Without an acceptance of multiple biblical church models, your own movement and network may plant cookie-cutter churches in neighborhoods where that model is inappropriate…

— Timothy Keller

“The loss of connection between churches and neighborhoods creates a corresponding loss of localized imagination and creates an addictive-like dependence on a contextual experts…

— Tim Keel

There's always the tendency to transform the Church into an ethical agency, and of measuring the Church by the yardstick of social and cultural…

— Karl Lehmann

Churchgoers in America are notorious for jumping into movements, even ideas that are hard to listen to. But when they actually have to change…

— Francis Chan

“In addition to the transience of their members, churches themselves face a crisis of hypermobility. Many churches have put down only shallow roots in…

— C. Christopher Smith

Due to our consumer mindset, people are prone to jump from church to church, which weakens the church overall.

— Francis Chan

But what we found in the study is that churches are ten times less diverse than the neighborhoods they sit in. So there's something…

— Michael Emerson