Church Quote by Michael Emerson

Local churches are ten times more segregated than the neighborhoods they are in and they are twenty times more segregated than the schools than…

— Derwin L. Gray

“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

“But not all places are the same. If a church is located in suburbia, where families are the predominant social circle, then church-growth ideas…

— Verlon Fosner

“Local churches are often microcosms of the same sociology as any other part of life and bear little evidence of the new humanity Jesus…

— Mark Labberton

“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

The separation of church and state is a suburban, not an urban, issue.

— Tony Evans

I coach church planters to look at the ethnic diversity of schools and neighborhoods they are near. This will be an indicator how ethnically…

— Derwin L. Gray

Only 13.7% of churches in America are consider multiethnic. This means that 86.3 % of churches are homogenous.

— Derwin L. Gray

Many churches of all persuasions are hiring research agencies to poll neighborhoods, asking what kind of church they prefer. Then the local churches design…

— Billy Graham

There is a continuum of values between the churches and the general community. What distinguishes the handling of these values in the churches is…

— Peter L. Berger

I mean, so if I've talked to whites in City of Refuge, sometimes they'll wonder, "Why do we do things a certain way, and…

— Michael Emerson

“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