Congregation Quotes

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Christian proclamation might make the gospel audible, but Christians living together in local congregations make the gospel visible (see John 13:34-35). The church is the… — Mark Dever
HOMILETICS, n. The science of adapting sermons to the spiritual needs, capacities and conditions of the congregation. — Ambrose Bierce
Letâ€™s not forget that American democracy started with â€˜We the Peopleâ€™ agreeing to work hard to create â€˜a more perfect union.â€™ Weâ€™ve lost the idea… — Parker J. Palmer
A team is not a bunch of people with job titles, but a congregation of individuals, each of whom has a role that is understood… — Meredith Belbin
Prosperity Gospelâ€. At his United Church Science of Living Institute in New York he would tell his congregation â€œclose your eyes and see green. Money… — Reverend Ike
There are entire congregations who worship praise and praise worship but who have not yet learned to praise and worship God in Jesus Christ. — Judson Cornwall
But I think it's up to a local congregation to determine whether or not a marriage should be blessed of God. And it shouldn't be… — Tony Campolo
I go farther, and say, that it is plainly our duty to desire pastors and teachers to take the care of such congregations, and that… — John Nelson Darby
Seventh-Gay AdventistsÂ isn't just a helpful movie, important for the way it can help congregations of any denomination deal graciously and truthfully with the issue… — Brian D. McLaren
In mid-career, I was at one and the same time the rabbi of a major congregation, writing books, and teaching at Columbia. I didn't spend… — Arthur Hertzberg
I just don't think pastors should turn their pulpits into public policy platforms. It cheapens the gospel. Our congregation doesn't need another political opinion. They… — Mark Batterson
The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it. — Karl Philipp Moritz
When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul. — Ralph Washington Sockman
If God really became incarnate, and if His Incarnation can with justice compel man to change his life,then we have no alternative but to conceive… — Josef Pieper
For I am verily persuaded the generality of preachers talk of an unknown and unfelt Christ; and the reason why congregations have been so dead… — Gilbert Tennent
What do you mean by praying that God will have mercy upon all men, and save them with an everlasting salvation, and then tell the… — William Gadsby
And he that blasphemeth the name of the Lord, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him. — Gary North
A couple you do not recognize - visitors, strangers - come to the door. How are you to view these people and what is your… — Thomas G. Long
Democracy destroys the unity of the Rumanian nation, dividing it among political parties, making Rumanians hate one another, and thus exposing a divided people to… — Corneliu Zelea Codreanu
Whoever buys into the vision God has for the congregation develops an affinity for all that is going on. — Phil Pringle

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