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• The doc­trine of the Church should be proven, not announced. There­fore show that the Scrip­tures teach these things.

  Theodoret

  Should, Teach, Shows

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• An Episcopalian divine once told the Pope that the only difference between their denominations was that "the Church of Rome is infallible and the Church of England is never in the wrong."

  Benjamin Franklin

  Rome, Differences, England

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• If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible-society, vote with a great party either for the government or against it, spread your table like base housekeepers, - under all these screens I have diffuculty to detect the precise man you are: and of course so much force is withdrawn from your proper life.  But do your work and I shall know you.  Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself.  A man must consider what a blind-man's bluff is this game of conformity.  If I know your sect I anticipate your argument.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Party, Men, Games

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2017). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.144, Broadview Press

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• It has taken countless hours of prayer, study, conversation and emotional turmoil to bring me to the place where I am finally ready to call for the full acceptance of Christian gay couples into the Church.

  Tony Campolo

  Christian, Prayer, Couple

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• At the center of the Christian tradition since the first church have been a number who insist that history is not tragic, hell is not forever, and love, in the end, wins and all will be reconciled to God.

  Rob Bell

  Christian, Winning, Numbers

  "Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived". Book by Rob Bell, June 7, 2011.

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• My grandmother went to church, but my mother had been inundated with church and decided that when she had children, she would not push church or God on her children.

  Gloria Gaynor

  Mother, Children, Decided

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• Where better than the church for people like me, George Jones and Johnny Cash to go to get ourselves in shape enough to sing a gospel song?

  Marty Stuart

  Song, People, Shapes

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• Jesus was born again in the pit of hell. .. The church started when Jesus was born again in the gates of hell.

  Charles Capps

  Jesus, Pits, Hell

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• My father had played cornet, although I never saw him play it. I found his mouthpiece when I was a kid. I used to buzz it. And my mother played piano and sang in the church choir for different functions. So there was always music in the house, jazz, gospel, or whatever. Especially jazz records.

  Johnny Griffin

  Mother, Father, Kids

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• Apostles receive revelations from God, and consequently they are able to say 'This is what the Spirit is saying to the churches right now.' Making such a statement with credibility carries with it tremendous authority.

  C. Wagner

  Able, Spirit, Revelations

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• The New Apostolic Reformation is an extraordinary work of the Holy Spirit that is changing the shape of Christianity globally. It is truly a new day! The Church is changing. New names! New methods! New worship expressions! The Lord is establishing the foundations of the Church for the new millennium. This foundation is built upon apostles and prophets. Apostles execute and establish God's plan on the earth.

  C. Wagner

  Expression, Names, New Day

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• The church must provide postmoderns with an alternity of rituals by which they can turn and tune to one another and feel connected to the cosmos.

  Leonard Sweet

  Tunes, Cosmos, Turns

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• I wondered if there was a way to teach people how to use their imaginations in prayer and worship. So I began reading books on cognitive therapy and neuroscience and started studying the devotional traditions of the church.

  Gregory A. Boyd

  Prayer, Book, Reading

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• A move of the Spirit of God is coming to the Catholic Church. The youth in particular will be ignited with a fresh fire of zeal and passion for Christ and His Gospel. A radical company of Believers will arise in the Catholic Church during this move, and they will release a flow of God's love and truth into the nations.

  Patricia King

  Moving, Passion, Fire

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• God literally moves his throne from heaven. When this happens the church is building a chair, a seat, a place for God to come.

  Tommy Tenney

  Moving, Heaven, Thrones

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• I have long profited from Adele Ahlberg Calhoun's gifts in the field of spiritual development, and I am delighted that she has compiled her experience with spiritual disciplines into book form. I highly recommend it and I look forward to using it as a resource at our church.

  Timothy Keller

  Spiritual, Book, Discipline

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• Led by myself and two colleagues, the course offers a newly developed model of spiritual direction that draws on both the age-old wisdom of the church and more recent perspectives. I call it the Passion/Wisdom Model of Spiritual Direction, and I see it as offering the opportunity for our interior worlds and supernatural reality to meet.

  Larry Crabb

  Spiritual, Passion, Opportunity

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• The church generation in which Jesus returns will actively participate in this revolution. ... My premise: Many people alive today will see this revolution in their lifetime.

  Mike Bickle

  Jesus, People, Live For Today

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• I ask that this one thing, your church would gaze on the, the beauty of the Lord, I ask that you would awaken the hardened lost. I ask you to fascinate your church with the revelation of the beauty of Jesus. Come and release lovesickness for Jesus. Come and unlock the fountains of the hearts, now, Lord, by the river of fire, by the Holy Spirit, by the spirit of revelation. Let us see what the Seraphim see. Let us be awestruck by the beauty of the God-man. In the name of Jesus we ask that.

  Mike Bickle

  Jesus, Heart, Men

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• I rebelled against the Mormon Church by going to other churches. I rebelled against my parents by not eating meat. I rebelled against my friends and myself by doing drugs. And I rebelled against everything that was holding me down by playing music with these guys.

  Bert McCracken

  Guy, Parent, Drug

  "The Used Gladly Sold Their Souls". The Sunday Telegraph Interview, July 10, 2005.

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• My beloved church misunderstood me. It preached the corruptibility of humanity when I came to demonstrate its potential for incorruptibility. It propounded the sinfulness of humanity when I suffered to reveal your godliness and to overcome your guilt by demonstrating that you can totally rise above the death of the body.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Humanity, Misunderstood, Guilt

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• The main reason, Your Holiness, of why we are here today, is it is not the business of the church to stray from the field of faith and morals and wonder into the playground that is science... it is not the business of the church to pronounce on science.

  Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley

  Fields, Why We Are Here, Holiness

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• The church must acclimate to a changing world, or she will destine herself to irrelevance or even extinction. ...One of those dramatic changes in our environment is the shift from words to images. To do church in a way that is entirely text driven is the kiss of death.

  Erwin McManus

  Kissing, Irrelevance, Extinction

  Erwin Raphael McManus (2013). “An Unstoppable Force: Daring to Become the Church God Had in Mind”, p.23, David C Cook

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• Anyone and anything can be a vehicle for the expression of God - but never contain the fullness of God. Therefore, the church recognizes that God will simultaneously employ and shatter. .. all doctrines, all ideologies. .. even within the church itself.

  Thomas G. Bandy

  Expression, Doctrine, Fullness

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• Many weeks ago, the Holy Spirit told me to watch the dates "March 8 to April 8." He was speaking to me about how beginning with March 8, there was a new season of revival and fruitfulness for the Church. That this would be a new time of fresh visitation.

  Todd Bentley

  Watches, Would Be, Spirit

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