“You never have to advertise a fire. Everyone comes running when there’s a fire. Likewise, if your church is on fire, you will not have to advertise it. The community will already know it.” – Leonard Ravenhill1
“Jesus is the Head of the church. He expects His body to cooperate.” – Jack Wellman
“The Kingdom of God is not going to be advanced by our churches becoming filled with men, but by men in our churches becoming filled with God.” – Duncan Campbell
“The local church is espoused to Christ, but there is always the danger of that love growing cold. Like Martha, we can be so busy working for Christ that we have no time to love Him. Christ is more concerned about what we do with Him than for Him. Labor is no substitute for love. To the public, the Ephesian church was successful; to Christ, it had fallen.” – Warren Wiersbe
“In proportion as a church is holy, in that proportion will its testimony for Christ be powerful.” – Charles Spurgeon
“The chief danger of the Church today is that it is trying to get on the same side as the world, instead of turning the world upside down. Our Master expects us to accomplish results, even if they bring opposition and conflict. Anything is better than compromise, apathy, and paralysis. God, give to us an intense cry for the old-time power of the Gospel and the Holy Ghost!” – A. B. Simpson
“Christianity means a lot more than church membership.” – Billy Sunday
“No church, including the one I pastor, should be measured by its attendance.” – Jim Cymbala
“The church’s job is to equip the saints for works of service in the world.” – Chuck Colson
“We have in our churches a great deal of prayer, but I think it would be a good thing if we had a praise meeting occasionally. If we could only get people to praise God for what He has done, it would be a good deal better than asking Him continually for something.” – Dwight L. Moody
“Scripture speaks very clearly to the fact that identification with God’s people in a formal, public way was considered essential in…New Testament times… A careful study of the New Testament doesn’t reveal even a hint of any believer who was truly saved, but not part of a local church.” – Wayne Mack
“The church is not the way to heaven; the church is the sign that points to heaven.” – Adrian Rogers
“A good church is a Bible-centered church. Nothing is as important as this–not a large congregation, a witty pastor, or tangible experiences of the Holy Spirit.” – Alistair Begg
“When Protestants speak of going to church… they are not thinking of a building but of a congregation. The congregation, not the building is holy… The church is holy because the congregation is the house of God.” – Edmund Clowney
“A church doesn’t necessarily need space to grow; it just needs the power of God.” – Jack Hyles
“The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.” – Henry Ward Beecher
“Down through the centuries the church has contributed more than any other single agency in lifting social standards to new heights.” – Billy Graham
“Persecution is an enemy the Church has met and mastered many times. Indifference could prove to be a far more dangerous foe.” – Brother Andrew
“There is no use trying to do Church work without love. A doctor, a lawyer, may do good work without love, but God’s work cannot be done without love.” – D. L. Moody
“Believe me, once you have tasted worship—the kind of worship that captures your heart and rivets your full attention on the living Lord—nothing less satisfies. Nothing else even comes close. Once you have tasted true worship, you will never want to play church again.” – Charles Swindoll
“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
“Churches become poor if they become rich and care not for the poor.” – Lester Roloff
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