Church Quote by James Emery White Download Open image “The church doesn’t have a mission; there is a mission, and it has the church.” — James Emery White ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Church Church Doesn Goals Mission Mission Church Mission Mission Missions
It's not so much that the church has a mission, it's that the mission of God has a church. — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
The church does not simply have a missions department; it should wholly exist to be a mission. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Mission is not primarily an activity of the church, but an attribute of God. — David Bosch Copy Share Image
The Church exists by mission, just as a fire exists by burning. Where there is no mission there is no Church; and where there… — Emil Brunner Copy Share Image
A church without a missions or a mission without the church are both contradictions. Such things do exist, but only as pseudostructures — Carl Braaten Copy Share Image
“It’s not that the church has a mission. It’s that a mission has the church.” — Rob Wegner Copy Share Image
Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't. — John Piper Copy Share Image
“Mission is not ours; mission is God's. Certainly, the mission of God is the prior reality out of which flows any mission that we… — Christopher J. H. Wright Copy Share Image
It is not so much the case that God has a mission for his church in the world, as that God has a church… — Christopher J. H. Wright Copy Share Image
“And the influence of their peers can be utterly overwhelming. As their closest friends succumb to the trend of G.O.Y., many children feel pressured… — James Emery White Copy Share Image
“The vast majority of those who are unchurched are not actively seeking a church home. Further, they are divorced from seeing it as a… — James Emery White Copy Share Image
“As John R. W. Stott has suggested, the art of preaching truly stands “between two worlds”: the world of the biblical text and the modern… — James Emery White Copy Share Image
“Biblical unity is about working through conflicts, avoiding slander and gossip, and being generous in spirit. It is giving each other the benefit of… — James Emery White Copy Share Image
“Unloving attitudes and words cause a “stench that the world can smell. . . . Our sharp tongues, the lack of love between us… — James Emery White Copy Share Image
“So what does this mean for a church trying to reach out to an internet-based generation? Here are some internet browsing statistics that may… — James Emery White Copy Share Image
The reality is that if you always do what you've always done, you'll always be where you've always been. — James Emery White Copy Share Image
“The great opposition to reading is what I allow to fill my time instead of reading. To say we have no time to read… — James Emery White Copy Share Image
“No, they won’t respond to a better-than-them pitch. Instead, they’re much more likely to respond to a new statement of their problem and a… — James Emery White Copy Share Image
“Christians must pioneer new ways to bind ourselves to Scripture, to our traditions, and to each other—not for mere survival, but so that the… — James Emery White Copy Share Image
“The distinctive form of address espoused by the prophets was “thus says the Lord.” Christopher J. H. Wright suggests that there were four principal prohibitions… — James Emery White 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
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