Modern Church

Interest in Discipleship – Allan Coppedge

Today’s rising interest in discipleship grows out of the experience of the evangelical church as it discovers it can no longer exist just to do evangelism and provide worship for believers.

– Dr. Allan Coppedge –

True spiritual worship – AW Tozer

I wonder if there was ever a time when true spiritual worship was at a lower ebb. To great sections of the church, the art of worship has been lost entirely, and in its place has come that strange and foreign thing called the “program.” This word has been borrowed from the stage and applied with sad wisdom to the public service which now passes for worship among us.

– AW Tozer –

Are you attracted to God? – AW Tozer

It is scarcely possible in most places to get anyone to attend a meeting where the only attraction is God.

– AW Tozer –

Measure of a Church’s Strength – EM Bounds

What is the truest measure of a church’s strength? True strength lies in the vital godliness of the people. The aggregate personal holiness of the members of each church is the only true measure of strength. Any other test offends God, dishonors Christ, grieves the Holy Spirit, and degrades religion.

– EM Bounds –

Entertainment Evangelism – Alistair Begg

We can’t entertain people into the kingdom.

– Alistair Begg –

The world and church can’t jog together – Catherine Booth

When the Church and the world can jog comfortably together, you may be sure there is something wrong. The world has not altered. Its spirit is exactly the same as it ever was, and if Christians were equally faithful and devoted to the Lord, and separated from the world, living so that their lives were a reproof to all ungodliness, the world would hate them as much as it ever did.

– Catherine Booth –