“The problem is not that the churches are filled with empty pews, but that the pews are filled with empty people.” PeopleProblemChurchEmptyFilledEmptiness Author:Charlie W Shedd
“It's essential that we learn how to defend the Bible and the Christian faith for our sake and our children's. If we don't, the empty and obsolete churches in England will foreshadow the future in America.” IfsChildrenChristianAmericaChurchEssentialsEmptyEnglandOur ChildrenSakeObsoleteChristian Faith Author:Ken Ham
“[On Christianity:] Its lip-service and its empty rites have made it the easiest of all tasks for the usurer to cloak his cruelties, the miser to hide his avarice, the lawyer to condone his lies, the sinner of all social sins to purchase the social immunity from them by outward deference to churches.” MadeLyingReligionSocialChurchSinChristianityTasksEmptyLipsLawyerCrueltyMade ItHypocrisySinnerAvariceCloaksRiteMisersImmunityDeferenceLip Service Book:Views and Opinions Source: Views and Opinions
“people say churches are half empty, they're not, they're too big” PeopleBigsChurchHalfEmptyHalf Empty Author:Sean Lock
“I'm happiest in an empty church. I love the smell of a church.” ChurchEmptySmell Author:Michael Patrick King
“Church is missing transcendence. My generation was raised on a religion of moral control. Do this. Don't do that. And a lot of self-help religion. Feel better. Get out of debt. Six ways to overcome your fears. Seven ways not to lust. Ultimately that message didn't work. It was empty. There was no transcendence. The omniscient, omnipresent, all-powerful God of the universe wasn't the focus.” WayFeelsSelfHelpingUniverseChurchPowerfulMoralFocusGenerationsMissingSelf HelpSixMessagesEmptyOvercomingRaisedSevenDebtLustWorking ItFeel BetterTranscendenceMy GenerationOmniscientPowerful God Author:Matt Chandler