Local Church Quotes

• Visionary people face the same problems everyone else faces; but rather than get paralyzed by their problems, visionaries immediately commit themselves to finding a solution.

  Bill Hybels

  Leadership, People, Creative

  Bill Hybels (2009). “Who You Are When No One's Looking: Choosing Consistency, Resisting Compromise”, p.47, InterVarsity Press

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• When a person becomes a Christian, he doesn’t just join a local church because it’s a good habit for growing in spiritual maturity. He joins a local church because it’s the expression of what Christ has made him—a member of the body of Christ.

  Mark Dever

  Christian, Spiritual, Maturity

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• Jesus is the hope of the world and the local church is the vehicle of expressing that hope to the world.

  Andy Stanley

  God, Christian, Religious

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• Nothing on earth has greater potential to change lives and carry out His kingdom work in your community, than your local church.There's nothing like the local church when it's working right.  Its beauty is indescribable. Its power is breathtaking.  Its potential is unlimited.  No other organization on earth is like the church.  Nothing even comes close.

  Bill Hybels

  Life Changing, Organization, Community

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• The Christian life is not just our own private affair. If we have been born again into God's family, not only has he become our Father but every other Christian believer in the world, whatever his nation or denomination, has become our brother or sister in Christ. But it is no good supposing that membership of the universal Church of Christ is enough; we must belong to some local branch of it. Every Christian's place is in a local church. sharing in its worship, its fellowship, and its witness.

  John Stott

  Christian, Brother, Father

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• The life function of [the local church] is to love the God who created it - to care for others out of obedience to Christ, to heal those who hurt, to take away fear, to restore community, to belong to one another, to proclaim the Good News while living it out. The church is the invisible made visible.

  Charles Colson

  Hurt, Community, Church

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• Being disconnected from the local church, for whatever reason, is a dangerous way to live. Not only do these “ lone rangers” miss out on the blessings of functioning within the context of the body of Christ, but like lone sheep away from the safety of the flock and the watchful care of the shepherd, they are vulnerable to predators of every sort.

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Blessing, Sheep, Safety

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss (2008). “Holiness: The Heart God Purifies”, p.128, Moody Publishers

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• Every believer is commanded to be plugged in to a local church.

  David Jeremiah

  Church, Believer, Locals

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• God wants every local church to be the first place people think to go when they've really messed up...not the last.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Thinking, People, Church

  FaceBook post by Tullian Tchividjian from Jan 11, 2015

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• If you claim to be a follower of Christ, I encourage you to consider your present commitment to a local church.

  David Platt

  Commitment, Church, Followers

  David Platt (2013). “Follow Me: A Call to Die. A Call to Live.”, p.171, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• A local church will only be as great as its conception of God.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Church, Conception, Locals

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• As I look around on Sunday morning at the people populating the pews, I see the risk that God has assumed. For whatever reason, God now reveals himself in the world not through a pillar of smoke and fire, not even through the physical body of his Son in Galilee, but through the mongrel collection that comprises my local church and every other such gathering in God’s name. (p. 68, Church: Why Bother?)

  Philip Yancey

  Faith, Morning, Sunday

  FaceBook post by Philip Yancey from Jan 18, 2016

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• My fear is that of all the choices people face today, the one they rarely consider is, "How can I serve most effectively and fruitfully in the local church?" I wonder if the abundance of opportunities to explore today is doing less to help make well-rounded disciples of Christ and more to help Christians avoid long term responsibility and have less long-term impact.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Christian, Responsibility, Opportunity

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• I spent twenty years of my life trying to recruit people out of local churches and into missions structures so that they could be involved in fulfilling God's global mission. Now I have another idea. Let's take God's global mission and put it right in the middle of the local church!

  George H. Miley

  Years, Ideas, People

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• Many churches of all persuasions are hiring research agencies to poll neighborhoods, asking what kind of church they prefer. Then the local churches design themselves to fit the desires of the people. True faith in God that demands selflessness is being replaced by trendy religion that serves the selfish.

  Billy Graham

  Selfish, Agency, People

  Billy Graham (2013). “The Reason for My Hope: Salvation”, p.105, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• 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.

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• Sunday is the best day of the week because we celebrate the risen Christ of the cross in the local church, the dearest place on earth.

  C. J. Mahaney

  Sunday, Church, Earth

  Twitter post from Apr 26, 2015

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• Evangelism and the local church are inseparable. It's like the Good Samaritan seeking an inn for the one he rescued.

  Reinhard Bonnke

  Church, Evangelism, Inns

  Source: pneumareview.com

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• The local church is the outcrop of the church universal.

  Peter Forsyth

  Church, Locals, Universal

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• Preaching is the primary means of growth for the local church. There is a great deal of debate about this in our day, but it is the preaching of the Word that God most uses to build up a church, not only numerically but above all (and far more importantly) in spiritual depth and understanding of the people who make up the congregation.

  James Montgomery Boice

  Spiritual, Mean, People

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• The local church is the hope of the world, and its future rests primarily in the hands of its leaders.

  Bill Hybels

  Hands, Leader, Church

  Twitter post from May 17, 2012

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• The gospel of grace nullifies our adulation of televangelists, charismatic superstars, and local church heroes. It obliterates the two-class citizenship theory operative in many American churches. For grace proclaims the awesome truth that all is gift. All that is good is ours, not by right, but by the sheer bounty of a gracious God.

  Brennan Manning

  Hero, Class, Two

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.19, Multnomah

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• There is nothing like the local church when the local church is working right.

  Bill Hybels

  Church, Locals

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• Contemporary American churches in particular do not require following Christ in his example, spirit, and teachings as a condition of membership-either of entering into or continuing in fellowship of a denomination or a local church.... Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have not yet decided to follow Christ.

  Dallas Willard

  Teaching, Following Christ, Church

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• No local church can afford to go without the encouragement and nourishment that will come to it by sending away its best people.

  David Penman

  Encouragement, People, Church

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