Modern Church

We are too self-sufficient – Leonard Ravenhill

We are too self-sufficient – Leonard Ravenhill

Today God is bypassing men—not because they are too ignorant, but because they are too self-sufficient. Brethren, our abilities are our handicaps, and our talents are our stumbling blocks!

– Leonard Ravenhill –

Unholy Church – Charles Spurgeon

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 –

God pity us – Leonard Ravenhill

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 –

Money changing or praying? – Jim Cymbala

Money changing or praying? – Jim Cymbala

The first-century money changers were in the temple, but they didn’t have the spirit of the temple… They were out of sync with the whole purpose of the Lord’s house. “The atmosphere of my Father’s house,” Jesus seemed to say, “is to be prayer. The aroma around my Father must be that of people opening their hearts in worship and supplication. This is not a place to make a buck. This is a house for calling on the Lord.”

– Jim Cymbala –

Condition of the Church – Charles Spurgeon

Condition of the Church – Charles Spurgeon

The condition of the church may be very accurately gauged by its prayer meetings. So is the prayer meeting a grace-ometer, and from it we may judge of the amount of divine working among a people. If God be near a church, it must pray. And if He be not there, one of the first tokens of His absence will be slothfulness in prayer.

– Charles Spurgeon –