Church Quote by Leonard Ravenhill Download Open image “The less power a church has, the more entertainment it has.” — Leonard Ravenhill ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Church Entertainment Inspirational Love Power
“Many churches offer more entertainment than worship, more uniformity than diversity, more exclusivity than outreach, more law than grace.” — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“when we expect the church to entertain us, it limits the church’s ability to challenge us. Entertainment rarely transforms.” — Barna Group Copy Share Image
The church that can't worship must be entertained. And leaders who can't lead a church to worship must provide the entertainment. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Far from being disturbed by the presence of the church, the power structure of the average community is consoled by the church's often vocal… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The church is not a political power; it's not a party, but it's a moral power. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“The Church does not depend on power, social prestige, rhetorical manipulation, or human-designed programs. All it has are the Word and Sacraments, which, though… — Gene Edward Veith Jr Copy Share Image
The church works best not as a power center, rather as a countercultural community - in the world but not of it - that… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Fewer and fewer people are attracted to the church service and more and more people are attracted to the service of the church. — Reggie McNeal Copy Share Image
“People no longer need to go to church to hear the Word, which has been the selling point for local churches for the past… — Justin Wise Copy Share Image
What has the church gained if it is popular but there is no conviction, no repentance, no power? — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Nothing will divide the church so much as the love of power. — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
Revival is the Spirit's passion within the believer to know and to obey the total will of God. — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
We have too many preacherettes preaching too many sermonettes to too many Christianettes smoking cigarettes. — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
If I was to ask you tonight if you were saved? Do you say 'Yes, I am saved'. When? 'Oh so and so preached, I got baptized and...' Are you saved? What are you saved from, hell? Are you saved from bitterness? Are you saved from lust? Are you saved from cheating? Are you saved from lying? Are you saved… — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share
The world out there is not waiting for a new definition of Christianity; it's waiting for a new demonstration of Christianity. — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
John the Baptist never performed any miracles. Yet, he was greater than any of the Old Testament prophets. — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
Get rid of this bunkum about the 'carnal Christian'. Forget it! If you're carnal, you're not saved. — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
Why is there this criminal indifference to the lostness of men? Our condemnation is that we know how to live better than we are… — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
I find it most intriguing to contemplate the fact that while men are considering what place to give Jesus Christ in history, He has… — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
If a Christian is not having tribulation in the world, there's something wrong! — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
The Bible parable says that while men slept, the enemy sowed tares among the wheat. A boy who rises at 4:30 to deliver papers… — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
Ministers who do not spend two hours a day in prayer are not worth a dime a dozen - degrees or no degrees. — Leonard Ravenhill 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 terror those and similar acts impose on communities seems to have been forgotten post-Sept. 11, 2001. — Anthea Butler Copy Share
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 his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share
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 gay and Christian across denominations is at once timely, smart, poignant, disturbing, inspiring, and maddening. It's essential reading for anyone who cares about the rights of the LGBTQ community to be treated as equal citizens at… — Donna Freitas Copy Share
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 Christianity but rather the kingdom of God. ... to believe that God is limited to it would be an attempt to manage God. If one holds that Christ is confined to Christianity, one has chosen a… — Samir Selmanovic Copy Share
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
![“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 - the new covenant, blood-bought people of God. That's why Paul said, 'Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her' (Eph. 5:25). He didn't give himself up for a…” quote by Mark Dever](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7a4/mark-dever-3175_blood_t-he-church-is-not-a-place-it-s-not-a-bu_3297.jpg)
