Rick Warren Quotes About Church
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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.
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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.
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A great commitment to the Great Commandment and the Great Commission will grow a great church.
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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.
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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.
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From the very beginning, I started preaching when I was 16 years old. So I began studying Scripture very seriously. I had done over a hundred revivals in Baptist churches before I was 20. So I am studying the Scripture as a kid and I'm noticing that Christians often wanted to excuse God from things that God doesn't need excusing from.
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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.
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Every church needs to grow warmer through fellowship, deeper through discipleship, stronger through through worship, and larger through evangelism.
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The problem with most American churches is that they teach too much and don't do enough.
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Servants think of ministry as an opportunity, not an obligation. They enjoy helping people, meeting needs, and doing ministry.
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Small churches become more effective when they specialize in what they do best.
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Absolutely nothing will revitalize a discouraged church faster than rediscovering it's purpose.
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A church will never grow beyond its capacity to meet needs.
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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.
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In every growing church you will find leadership that is not afraid to believe God.
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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.
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Jesus has not promised to build your ministry; he has promised to build his church.
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You measure a church's strength, not by its seating capacity but by its sending capacity.
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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.
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The church that doesn't want to grow is saying to the world, "go to hell."
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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.
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History shows that when the church accommodates culture, it weakens it.
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I believe in the separation of church and state, but I do not believe in the separation of politics from religion.
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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.
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I added up all the money the church paid me for the first 25 years and gave it all back.
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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.
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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.
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Irrelevance happens when the speed of change outside an organization is greater than speed of change inside an organization.
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The church must always show compassion, always.
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Many of the liberal people tend to say, "Well, the solution is government." I couldn't disagree more. The government cannot solve the problem and never will. I believe the solution to these problems is the church and that the church should be responsible for caring for the sick, and assisting the poor, and educating.
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