Art of life Quote by Mark Labberton

“We believe that the local church is a community of regenerated believers who confess Jesus Christ as Lord, and that the universal church is…

— Mark Driscoll

“Just like the person of Jesus, the local church as the body of Christ must understand what it is created and called to do.”

— Will Mancini

“The world is now an urban place. The resources and concerns of the church need to acknowledge this.”

— J.R. Woodward

“We as the church do not want to lag behind society today, in terms of welcoming people of different cultures, races, and abilities.”

— Amy Fenton Lee

“The loss of connection between churches and neighborhoods creates a corresponding loss of localized imagination and creates an addictive-like dependence on a contextual experts…

— Tim Keel

“church and real life seemed to have little in common.”

— Nik Ripken

“Now wonder our youth is confused and in pain; they long for God, for the transcendent, and they are offered, far too often, either…

— Madeleine L'Engle

“If we’re going to reach the unchurched, underchurched, dechurched, and postchurched with the gospel in a culture that’s trending post-Christian, we must rethink our…

— Andy Stanley

“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

“Biblical church planting is evangelism that results in new churches.”

— J. Payne

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

“Community is essential, but the fundamental calling of the church is global.”

— Calvin Miller