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
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 –
A demonstration of God – Duncan Campbell
The average man is not going to be impressed by our publicity, our posters or our programs, but let there be a demonstration of the supernatural in the realm of religion, and at once man is arrested.
– Duncan Campbell –
The Gift of Pentecost – Samuel Chadwick
I owe everything to the gift of Pentecost. For fifty days the facts of the Gospel were complete, but no conversions were recorded. Pentecost registered three thousand souls. It is by fire that a holy passion is kindled in the soul whereby we live the life of God. The soul’s safety is in its heat. Truth without enthusiasm, morality without emotion, ritual without soul, make for a Church without power.
– Samuel Chadwick –
Power and Life – David Wilkerson
When you strip it of everything else, Pentecost stands for power and life. That’s what came into the church when the Holy Spirit came down on the day of Pentecost.
– David Wilkerson –
God pity us – Leonard Ravenhill
God pity us that after years of writing, using mountains of paper and rivers of ink, exhausting flashy terminology about the biggest revival meetings in history, we are still faced with gross corruption in every nation, as well as with the most prayerless church age since Pentecost.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
Don’t despise small beginnings – W. Phillip Keller
God did not, does not, and will not despise the small beginning. It is essentially His method and manner of working.
– W. Phillip Keller –
from Expendable, page 151