Age Quote by Charles Hodge

Before everything else, fidelity to the Church: One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic. Jesus did not found several churches, but one single Church.

— Pope John XXIII

It appears likely that there was no normative pattern of church government in the apostolic age, and that the organizational structure of the church…

— George Eldon Ladd

The Churches belong together in the Church. What that may mean for our ecclesiastical groupings we do not know. We have not discovered the…

— Hugh Martin

If the Church is a living body united to the same head, governed by the same laws, and pervaded by the same Spirit, it…

— Charles Hodge

The Independent or Congregational theory includes two principles; first, that the governing and executive power in the Church is in the brotherhood; and secondly,…

— Charles Hodge

The Church is everywhere represented as one. It is one body, one family, one fold, one kingdom. It is one because pervaded by one…

— Charles Hodge

“The Scriptures picture the church as an essential, chosen organism in whom Christ dwells; the reality is that people view the church as an…

— Greg Ogden

“Church, in the New Testament sense of the word, is not a meeting we attend, but a group of which we are a part,…

— Keri Wyatt Kent

“The unity, holiness, catholicity, and apostolicity of the church depend entirely on what it hears and tells.”

— Michael S. Horton

According to the New Testament, the church is primarily a body of people who profess and give evidence that they have been saved by…

— Mark Dever

The definition of a Church is crystal clear in the New Testament. We see the picture of it. They came together the first day…

— John MacArthur

The Church is the one institution that exists for those outside it.

— William Tyndale