“The church is not a select circle of the immaculate, but a home where the outcast may come in. It is not a palace with gate attendants and challenging sentinels along the entrance-ways holding off at arm’s-length the stranger, but rather a hospital where the broken-hearted may be healed, and where all the weary and troubled may find rest and take counsel together.”1 – James H. Aughey
“We do not want a church that will move with the world. We want a church that will move the world.” – G.K. Chesterton
“The glory of the gospel is that when the church is absolutely different from the world, she invariably attracts it.” – Martyn Lloyd-Jones
“The Church is the only society that exists for the benefit of those who are not its members.” – William Temple
“The church is a hospital for sinners, and not a museum for saints.” – Vance Havner
“Church attendance is as vital to a disciple as a transfusion of rich, healthy blood to a sick man.” – Dwight L. Moody
“The church does not draw people in; it sends them out.” – Chuck Colson
“It takes more than a busy church, a friendly church, or even an evangelical church to impact a community for Christ. It must be a church ablaze, led by leaders who are ablaze for God.” – Wesley L. Duewel
“The church should be setting the pace. The church should be taking its proper place of leadership in the nation . . .God help the church to wake up!” – Billy Graham
“The Church is the Church only when it exists for others…not dominating but helping and serving. It must tell men of every calling what it means to live for Christ, to exist for others.” – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men.” – E. M. Bounds
“The church is not a theological classroom. It is a conversion, confession, repentance, reconciliation, forgiveness and sanctification center, where flawed people place their faith in Christ, gather to know and love him better, and learn to love others as he designed.” – Paul David Tripp
“Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they’re sinners can bring democracy the tolerance it requires to survive.” – Ronald Reagan
“For a Christian to be a Christian, he must first be a sinner. Being a sinner is a prerequisite for being a church member. The Christian church is one of the few organizations in the world that requires a public acknowledgement of sin as a condition for membership.” – R. C. Sproul
“The Church right now has more fashion than passion, is more pathetic than prophetic, is more superficial than supernatural.” – Leonard Ravenhill
“The only group large enough to handle, ‘the world’s biggest problems,’ is the network of millions of local churches around the world. We have the widest distribution, largest group of volunteers, local credibility, the promises of God, the power of the Holy Spirit, and the inevitability of history.” – Rick Warren
“The Church is the one institution that exists for those outside it.” – William Tyndale
“The Christian that is bound by his own horizon, the church that lives simply for itself, is bound to die a spiritual death and sink into stagnancy and corruption. We never can thank God enough for giving us not only a whole Gospel to believe, but a whole world to give it to.” – A. B. Simpson
“Every believer is commanded to be plugged in to a local church.” – David Jeremiah
“The first century money changers were in the temple, but they didn’t have the spirit of the temple… They were out of sync with the whole purpose of the Lord’s house. ‘The atmosphere of my Father’s house,’ Jesus seemed to say, is to be prayer. The aroma around my Father must be that of people opening their hearts in worship and supplication. This is not a place to make a buck. This is a house for calling on the Lord.” – Jim Cymbala
“The church which is not a missionary church will be a missing church when Jesus comes.” – F. B. Meyer
“I don’t think the job of the church is to make people happy. I think it’s to make them holy.” – Chuck Colson
“Churches become poor if they become rich and care not for the poor.” – Lester Roloff
1 All of these quotations listed in this devotion are from the following websites:
The true church is the living,breathing organ of God Almighty!!!!