Rick Warren Quotes About Church

Quotes about: Church

• A great commitment to the Great Commandment and the Great Commission will grow a great church.

  Rick Warren

  Commitment, Church, Grows

  "EXCLUSIVE Rick Warren: 'Flat Out Wrong' That Muslims, Christians View God the Same". Interview with Brandon A. Cox, www.christianpost.com. March 2, 2012.

• Absolutely nothing will revitalize a discouraged church faster than rediscovering it's purpose.

  Rick Warren

  Church, Purpose, Discouraged

  Rick Warren (2007). “The Purpose Driven Church: Growth Without Compromising Your Message and Mission”, p.89, Zondervan

• The problem with most American churches is that they teach too much and don't do enough.

  Rick Warren

  Church, Too Much, Problem

• He created the church to meet your five deepest needs: a purpose to live for, people to live with, principles to live by, a profession to live out, and power to live on. There is no other place on earth where you can find all five of these benefits in one place.

  Rick Warren

  Christian, People, Religion

• A church must grow larger and smaller at the same time. Larger through worship and smaller through small groups.

  Rick Warren

  Church, Groups, Worship

• History shows that when the church accommodates culture, it weakens it.

  Rick Warren

  Church, Culture, Shows

  Interview with Jake Tapper, abcnews.go.com. April 8, 2012.

• When we place our faith in Christ, God becomes our Father, we become his children, other believers become our brothers and sisters, and the church becomes our spiritual family. The family of God includes all believers in the past, the present, and the future.

  Rick Warren

  Faith, Spiritual, Brother

  FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from Dec 10, 2016

• The church that doesn't want to grow is saying to the world, "go to hell."

  Rick Warren

  Religion, Church, World

  Rick Warren (2012). “The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?”, p.268, Zondervan

• You measure a church's strength, not by its seating capacity but by its sending capacity.

  Rick Warren

  Christian, Believe, Church

  Rick Warren @RickWarren, twitter.com. July 7, 2015.

• Many believe one can be a "good Christian" without joining (or even attending) a local church, but God would strongly disagree.

  Rick Warren

  Christian, Believe, Church

  "The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?". Book by Rick Warren, 2002.

• Irrelevance happens when the speed of change outside an organization is greater than speed of change inside an organization.

  Rick Warren

  Leadership, Christian, Organization

• I believe in the separation of church and state, but I do not believe in the separation of politics from religion.

  Rick Warren

  Believe, Church, Separation

• Servants think of ministry as an opportunity, not an obligation. They enjoy helping people, meeting needs, and doing ministry.

  Rick Warren

  Christian, Opportunity, Thinking

  "The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?". Book by Rick Warren, 2002.

• The church must always show compassion, always.

  Rick Warren

  Compassion, Church, Shows

• A church will never grow beyond its capacity to meet needs.

  Rick Warren

  Church, Needs, Capacity

• So when you say who does Christ die for? He died for the church, okay. I don't think God's death on the cross through Christ was a failure, if you are saying that. I do not believe that anybody he intended to die for is failing in that area.

  Rick Warren

  Believe, Thinking, Church

  Source: thrownscabbard.blogspot.com

• Every church is flawed. Still, you'd better learn to love it since it's the only group Jesus said he's taking to Heaven.

  Rick Warren

  Jesus, Heaven, Church

  FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from Jul 26, 2011

• The mission of Tom Peterson and Catholics Come Home to bring souls home to Jesus and the church is critically important during this challenging time in our history. I fully support this New Evangelization project.

  Rick Warren

  Jesus, Home, Support

• People forget that the church is bigger than China. It speaks more languages than the United Nations. It has more volunteers than all the NGOs in the world put together.

  Rick Warren

  People, Volunteer, Church

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I really do feel that these people are brothers and sisters in God's family. I am looking to build bridges with the Orthodox Church, looking to build bridges with the Catholic Church, with the Anglican church.

  Rick Warren

  Brother, Bridges, People

• You must match your music to the kind of people God wants your church to reach.... The music you use 'positions' your church in your community. It defines who you are.... It will determine the kind of people you attract, the kind of people you keep, and the kind of people you lose.

  Rick Warren

  People, Community, Church

• Jesus has not promised to build your ministry; he has promised to build his church.

  Rick Warren

  Jesus, Church, Ministry

  "Purpose Driven Life". Book by Rick Warren, 2002.

• I'm a pastor of a local church. I'm not a televangelist. I've never had a televised program. I'm a pastor. A pastor's role is to care and comfort, encourage, teach, and everything that I do, even when I meet with world leaders, is from a pastor's heart.

  Rick Warren

  Heart, Leader, Church

  Source: www.pbs.org

• When a human body is out of balance we call that disease, which indicates dis-ease of the body. Likewise, when the body of Christ becomes unbalanced, disease occurs... Health will occur only when everything is brought back into balance. The task of church leadership is to discover and remove growth-restricting diseases and barriers so that natural, normal growth can occur.

  Rick Warren

  Growth, Balance, Church

  "The Purpose Driven Church: Growth Without Compromising Your Message and Mission". Book by Rick Warren, 1995.

• I'm looking for a second reformation. The first reformation of the church 500 years ago was about beliefs. This one is going to be about behavior. The first one was about creeds. This one is going to be about deeds. It is not going to be about what does the church believe, but about what is the church doing.

  Rick Warren

  Believe, Years, Church

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