Church today Quote by Peter Rollins Download Open image ““What we see taking place in the church today is the reduction of God to an idol.”” — Peter Rollins ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Church today Doubts Emergent-church Inspirational life
“When we ask people what they want in church instead of giving them what they were created to long for, we play in the… — James MacDonald Copy Share Image
“In a society in which idolatry runs rampant, a church that is not iconoclastic is a travesty. If it is not against the idols… — Herbert Schlossberg Copy Share Image
“My point is that when we ask people what they want in church instead of giving them what they were created to long for,… — James MacDonald Copy Share Image
“I’m fairly certain I’m having my first truly religious experience, and it’s probably a very bad thing that it’s happening in a church, but… — Lisa Desrochers Copy Share Image
“The worship of God shouldn’t be done in church alone, but in all our actions and our attitude towards His creation” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“... challenge the church to do better, be more of who Christ wants us to be ...” — Justin Lee Copy Share Image
“At that moment, we decided to stop complaining about the church we saw, and we set our hearts on becoming the church we dreamed… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“The church is supposed to help the people discover their calling and reveal the Kingdom of God to them” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“By our life and deeds of love, we are making the Church fully present in the world today.” — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
“One of the greatest theological challenges of our time is to move our worship beyond self-absorption.” — Kelly M. Kapic Copy Share Image
“The Church was not left in this world to perfume the dung-heap of fallen humanity, but to take out, one by one, those who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him. It begins in the mind and may be… — A.W. Tozer Copy Share Image
“Our real beliefs are generally not to be found at the level of ego.” — Peter Rollins Copy Share Image
Here God is not approached as an object that we must love, but as a mystery present in the very act of love itself. — Peter Rollins Copy Share Image
In contrast we let go of existence, meaning, and the sublime as categories to describe the object “God.” Instead these become ways in which… — Peter Rollins Copy Share Image
Christianity can be described as a theological materialism: It is that which transforms our material existence. If our faith does not throw us into… — Peter Rollins Copy Share Image
Truly embracing the fragility and tensions of life...brings with it the possibility of true joy. — Peter Rollins Copy Share Image
“However, we rarely see what happens after the hero grasps what is sought, for if we did, the impotence of the MacGuffin would be… — Peter Rollins Copy Share Image
“Orthodoxy as right belief will cost us little; indeed, it will allow us to sit back with our Pharisaic doctrines, guarding the ‘truth’ with… — Peter Rollins Copy Share Image
I deny the resurrection every time I turn my back on the poor or become a cog in a system of injustice — Peter Rollins Copy Share Image
“playing at the entrance of the hut. “Whose children are these?” he asked.” — Peter Rollins Copy Share Image
What if the church should be less concerned with creating saints than creating a world where we do not need saints? A world where… — Peter Rollins Copy Share Image
“For just as one person’s idol is another’s icon, so one person’s fable is another’s parable.” — Peter Rollins Copy Share Image
“After that day, the father began to take an interest in his son’s life” — Peter Rollins Copy Share Image
I think the greatest weakness in the church today is that almost no one believes that God invests His power in the Bible. Everyone… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“city builders and rebuilders (Jerusalem) and city-loving exiles (Babylon). In New Testament times, the people of God become city missionaries (indeed, New Testament writings… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“The biggest threat to the church today is fans who call themselves Christians but aren’t actually interested in following Christ. They want to be… — Kyle Idleman Copy Share Image
In some Churches today and on some religious television programs, we see the attempt to make Christianity popular and pleasant. We have taken the… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
What does it say about our churches today that God birthed the church in a prayer meeting, and prayer meetings today are almost extinct? — Jim Cymbala Copy Share Image
Above all, I declare that Jesus Christ is the center of our faith; I testify to you that he lives. He leads his Church… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
I think that the church in America today is so obsessed with being practical, relevant, helpful, successful, and perhaps well-liked that it nearly mirrors… — Michael Horton Copy Share Image
The problem with our churches today is that the lead pastor is some sissy boy who wears cardigan sweaters, has The Carpenters dialed in… — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
One of the greatest priorities of the church today is to mobilize the laity to do the work of evangelism. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
“Although nobody in the grace movement is saying grace is a license to sin (nor have they ever), it’s often assumed that, since we… — D.R. Silva Copy Share Image
The meetings least attended in our churches today are the ones whose only attraction is God. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
“The biggest threat to the church today is fans who call themselves Christians but aren’t actually interested in following Christ.” — Kyle Idleman Copy Share Image
