T. D. Jakes Quotes About Church

Quotes about: Church

• All over this nation, all over this world there are people going to church today and they say they are believers, but until you can take what you've been taught and bring it to the place you gave up - you will never be the radical believer that you need to be for the times in which we live.

  T. D. Jakes

  Church Today, People, Going To Church

• It does matter where you go to church, it does matter where you worship, it does matter where you lift your head, it does matter where you cry out to God. There is something about the atmosphere. I might be lame, but put me in the atmosphere. I may be drunk, but put me in the atmosphere. I may be weak, but put me in the atmosphere.

  T. D. Jakes

  Drunk, Atmosphere, Church

• You don't have to be in church service to worship, you can be in your own home. You enhance your spirituality, through the instrument of worship, when you really connect with the invisible, almighty God.

  T. D. Jakes

  Home, Worship You, Church Service

• You are just one idea away from what you sow in your brains, in your prophecies that God spoke over your life. You're one idea away. You are not waiting on God - God is waiting on you! I'm sorry, I didn't mean to go on and on about that. I have this stuff in me and I have no place to release it to you because sometimes church people are so spiritual they make me nauseous, because they expect God to do everything.

  T. D. Jakes

  Spiritual, Sorry, Mean

• A church that focuses on the external has lost its passion for souls.

  T. D. Jakes

  Inspirational, Passion, Soul

  T. D. Jakes (2015). “The T.D. Jakes Legacy Collection”, p.22, Destiny Image Publishers

• My first church had seven members in it, and I have to remember, the rent was $225 a month and I worked for Union Carbide and took the check I made from work to pay for the rent to keep the church open.

  T. D. Jakes

  Church, Unions, Pay

  "Lessons On Forgiveness From T.D. Jakes". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. April 5, 2012.

• And another thing is that I think as a church whenever we become politically driven, we alienate at least 50 percent of the people that God called us to reach with our political orientations.

  T. D. Jakes

  God, Thinking, People

  "Interview: Bishop TD Jakes on Hell, Politics, Film Projects". Interview with Katherine T. Phan, www.christianpost.com. June 19, 2011.

• Church only benefits you when you participate in the presence of God.

  T. D. Jakes

  Church, Benefits, Presence Of God

• I think that the church has to develop its own agenda, and not allow itself to be consumed by either party to the chagrin of the people that we seek to serve.

  T. D. Jakes

  Party, Thinking, People

  Source: sojo.net

• Once again, Kirk Franklin takes the church beyond the traditional, transitioning his life's experiences into life lessons. Clearly there is more to this man than great music. You will feel the beat of his heart and faith.

  T. D. Jakes

  Life Lesson, Heart, Men

• Really, when you get down to racism, in or out of the church, it's a heart issue. It's not a head issue. When we actually get to experience each other's ministry, and each other's struggle, and each other's pain, there's a much greater sensitivity.

  T. D. Jakes

  Pain, Struggle, Heart

  Source: sojo.net

• I actually grew up playing the piano in the church and was deeply involved in music ministry.

  T. D. Jakes

  Piano, Church, Ministry

  "Mega Church Leader Bishop T.D. Jakes". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. May 2, 2006.

• I was raised in the Baptist church... but I didn't really have a real committed experience with Christ until my father died.

  T. D. Jakes

  Father, Real, Church

• My church is fifty percent millennials. There's a connectivity between millennials and I.

  T. D. Jakes

  Church, Millennials, Fifty

  "T.D. Jakes Talks: Second Chances, Humble Beginnings & Knowing Your Worth". Interview with Zon D’Amour, lasentinel.net. September 21, 2016.

• The traditional churches are having to transition into new methodologies and new ways of reaching people and they are starting to understand that and looking for ways they can increase their relevance to the contemporary society.

  T. D. Jakes

  People, Church, Transition

  Source: thechurchladyblogs.com

• Most of what I have seen, the churches that are growing are the best are those that are nondenominational. But I don't think it's because they are nondenominational. I think that there's a certain method by which they go about reaching out to people that are not as traditional as your mainland churches generally do.

  T. D. Jakes

  Thinking, People, Church

  Source: thechurchladyblogs.com

• The New Birth church is a church unto itself who has a board and it has a membership. How they choose to handle their leadership issues it's not something that we can control regardless of which side you stay on that issue. It is their church issue and their responsibility and their response. And I'm saying what I always said that we should just keep on praying for the New Birth church family.

  T. D. Jakes

  Responsibility, Issues, Church

  Source: thechurchladyblogs.com

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