Church Quote by Roland Allen Download Open image “The church was first established and organized with a world-wide mission for a world-wide work.” — Roland Allen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Church Firsts Goals Missions Organized Wide World
It is not so much the case that God has a mission for his church in the world, as that God has a church… — Christopher J. H. Wright Copy Share Image
“a missional church is simply any church that organizes itself around the mission of God in this world.” — Michael Frost Copy Share Image
“So a working definition of missional church is a community of God's people that defines itself, and organizes its life around, its real purpose… — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
“the church was an international institution long before globalization.” — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
It's not so much that the church has a mission, it's that the mission of God has a church. — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
I spent twenty years of my life trying to recruit people out of local churches and into missions structures so that they could be… — George H. Miley Copy Share Image
The church is: a conspiracy of love for a dying world, a spy mission into enemy occupied territory ruled by the powers of evil;… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
The true idea of a church has not yet been shown the world, a visible Church, I mean, unless it was in the very… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
“Mission is not ours; mission is God's. Certainly, the mission of God is the prior reality out of which flows any mission that we… — Christopher J. H. Wright Copy Share Image
The Church exists to connect people at the level of their hunger for a new world. — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
Men who hold a theory of the Church which excludes from communion those whom they admit to have the Spirit of Christ simply proclaim… — Roland Allen Copy Share Image
There is in St. Paul's definite, soul-stirring assertion of the wrath of God and the reality of the judgment at hand, a truth more… — Roland Allen Copy Share Image
The Spirit is Love expressed towards man as redeeming love, and the Spirit is truth, and the Spirit is the Holy Spirit. Redemption is… — Roland Allen Copy Share Image
Christ had given the apostles a world-wide commission, embracing all the nations; but intellectually they did not understand what He meant. They found that… — Roland Allen Copy Share Image
If we allow the consideration of heathen morality and heathen religion to absolve us from the duty of preaching the gospel we are really… — Roland Allen Copy Share Image
In arriving at a decision in a question of doubt, the apostles in the Acts were guided solely by their sense of the Spirit… — Roland Allen Copy Share Image
We must be willing to begin with positive teaching, not with negative prohibitions, and be content to wait and to watch whilst the native… — Roland Allen Copy Share Image
Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love. If I do not love a… — Roland Allen Copy Share Image
Among our own people also the church sorely needs clergy in close touch with the ordinary life of the laity, living the life of… — Roland Allen Copy Share Image
The apostles were moved, not so much by an intellectual apprehension, as by a spiritual illumination. They met men, and the need of those… — Roland Allen Copy Share Image
Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love. — Roland Allen 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