Black Quote by Cornel West

“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

The black church is dormant, much of the community is dormant. If the black church is leaning toward the right, much of the community…

— Cornel West

“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

Historically speaking, institutions are slow to change and usually resistant to any sudden moves - churches especially so.

— Gene Robinson

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

A lot of churches have not moved with the times.

— Joel Osteen

“We have seen, then, that it requires at least modest church planting in a city just to keep the body of Christ from steadily…

— Timothy Keller

“No one doubts that relocating a growing congregation is inconvenient. So is relocating a growing shoe store, supermarket, or household. But it doesn’t follow…

— John Corvino

I love what the church offers to us as a culture - black people in particular. We would be nowhere without the black church.

— Oprah Winfrey

Any Church community, if it thinks it can comfortably go its own way without creative concern and effective cooperation in helping the poor to…

— Pope Francis

“RENTERS AND NEIGHBORHOOD One “occupational hazard” of urban church planting is having a new church rent its worship space and therefore only corporately reside…

— Timothy Keller

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