Church Quote by Rick Warren Download Open image “Small churches become more effective when they specialize in what they do best.” — Rick Warren ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Church
A church must grow larger and smaller at the same time. Larger through worship and smaller through small groups. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
Churches should evaluate everything they do to determine how it can be done better. — Thom S. Rainer Copy Share Image
Some major churches overemphasize the importance of preaching as a means to increase membership and fail to reach out with compassion to their neighbors… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
What's true for churches is true for other institutions: the older and more organized they get, the less adaptable they become. That's why the… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
If the church is going to make a difference, it will need to go through the "big give-up" stage. Churches will need to quit… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
In all my eleven years of itinerant ministry I cannot recall any growing church which does not encourage small groups — Eddie Gibbs Copy Share Image
American churches work very hard at reaching out to people to bring them in. — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Churches, depending on their policy, can do fantastic work with people in the community. — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
“A "successful" church can offer outstanding programs and ministries, but if its members are not being transformed, it is not a healthy church.” — Kevin G. Ford Copy Share Image
In a smaller church your pastoring sets up your preaching. In a larger church your preaching sets up your pastoring. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Every church needs to grow warmer through fellowship, deeper through discipleship, stronger through through worship, and larger through evangelism. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
Change always starts in your mind. The way you think determines the way you feel, and the way you feel influences the way you… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
If Jesus is king in heaven then the Kingdom of God is in heaven. If Jesus is king, reign on earth then the Kingdom… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
“The Bible says, “You must make allowance for each other’s faults and forgive the person who offends you. Remember, the Lord forgave you, so… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
If it grows on a plant, it's healthy. If it's made in a plant, don't eat it. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
When you jump across a canyon, cautious small steps and vacillation won't work. Sometimes you just have to go for it. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
We often miss hearing God's voice simply because we aren't paying attention. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
Law is downstream from culture. By the time you make a law about something, you're reacting, not acting. I'd rather shape the culture. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
“If you look at the world, you’ll be distressed. If you look within, you’ll be depressed. But if you look at Christ, you’ll be… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
It is mind-boggling to me that the Almighty power created everything I see; the Bible says that God created the entire universe just so… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
The role of the church and the government are fundamentally different. The church must always show compassion - always. — Rick Warren 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