Church Quote by Russell M. Nelson

“Church” today is mostly driven by man-made traditions and not by the biblical mandates to defend the Word of God and live by the…

— Ken Ham

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

The fault seems to me to have been that men have taken ancient country churches as their models and have failed to discover that…

— George Edmund Street

The clerical system of church management is exceedingly popular, but the whole thought is foreign to Scripture. In a church all the members are…

— Watchman Nee

Churches are not the kingdom of God, but are primary and inevitable expressions, outposts, and instrumentalities of presence of the kingdom among us. They…

— Dallas Willard

All Church power is, therefore, properly ministerial and administrative. Everything is to be done in the name of Christ, and in accordance with his…

— Charles Hodge

“...the institutional church, which exists to serve the people of God, is never to be confused with the church as mystery - the Christ-centered,…

— Brennan Manning

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

“Without the persistent rising up of individuals that seek the Lord and place themselves under His direct leadership, churches will inevitably...slip into human hierarchy,…

— Henry Hon

The minister and the priest teach that the organization is greater. No great philosophy has ever come from an organization, but from an individual…

— Paul Twitchell

“Though the Reformation originated with the Lord's fresh move through various reformers, in a rather short time the resulting churches became institutionalized with a…

— Henry Hon

“Church historians often ask, ‘Is the church a movement or an institution?' . . . I think it is both. . . . I…

— Bruce L. Shelley