Today, we are living in desperate times. Yet, the Church is not desperate before God in prayer.
– Chuck Smith –
Church
How preachers preach – Leonard Ravenhill
Preachers used to sow seed; now they string intellectual pearls.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
Jealously Protecting the Church – AW Tozer
The church that is not jealously protected by mighty intercession and sacrificial labors will before long become the abode of every evil bird and the hiding place for unsuspected corruption. The creeping wilderness will soon take over that church that trusts in its own strength and forgets to watch and pray.
– AW Tozer –
Organizing something ourselves – Leonard Ravenhill
We are not going to organize something for God to bless.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
Unholy Church – Charles Spurgeon
An unholy church! it is useless to the world, and of no esteem among men. It is an abomination, hell’s laughter, heaven’s abhorrence. The worst evils which have ever come upon the world have been brought upon her by an unholy church.
– Charles Spurgeon –
The Church and the World – LE Maxwell
The Church had never such influence over the world as in the days when she had nothing to do with the world.
– LE Maxwell –
Prairie Pastor issue number 1, January 1928
Church is a hospital – John Bunyan
Christ’s church is a hospital of sick, wounded, and afflicted people.
– John Bunyan –
Do we have Holy Spirit power? – Leonard Ravenhill
But have we Holy Spirit power—power that restricts the devil’s power, pulls down strongholds and obtains promises? Daring delinquents will be damned if they are not delivered from the devil’s dominion. What has hell to fear other than a God-anointed, prayer-powered church?
– Leonard Ravenhill –
The Church is not an end in itself – Robby Gallaty
When the church becomes an end in itself, it ends … When small groups ministry becomes an end in itself, it ends. When the worship service becomes an end in itself, it ends. What we need is for discipleship to become the goal, and then the process never ends. The process is fluid. It is moving. It is active. It is a living thing. It must continue to go on. Every disciple must make disciples.
– Robby Gallaty –