• If there is no deep yearning for a life that is well pleasing to Him, if there is no stimulating desire to know Him and His Word, church membership is just like a young man falling in love with a furnished apartment and marrying an electric stove, a refrigerator, a vacuum cleaner, a garbage disposal, and a wet mop! That is just about all it amounts to. Let's stop playing church today and start loving Christ and living for Him!

    J. Vernon McGee: If there is no deep yearning for a life that is well pleasing to Him, if there is no 
stimulating desire to know Him and His Word, church membership is just like 
a young man falling in love with a furnished apartment and marrying an electric 
stove, a refrigerator, a vacuum cleaner, a garbage disposal, and a wet mop! 
That is just about all it amounts to. Let's stop playing church today and start 
loving Christ and living for Him!
    J. Vernon McGee (1984). “Genesis through Revelation: 5 Volumes Genesis - Revelation”, p.4956, Thomas Nelson Inc