“What makes a church great in the eyes of God? Participation, proclamation, preservation, and propagation. Every church ought to exhibit all four.” EyeChurchFourOughtParticipationPreservationExhibitsProclamationPropagation Book:Revive Us Again Source: Revive Us Again
“I remember the first sermon I ever preached. I had four sermons. I preached them, all four in ten minutes. And that was the beginning, in a place called Bostwick, Florida, in northern Florida, in a little tiny church, and on a cold night, about 40 people. And I was so nervous.” PeopleFirstsLittlesRememberNightChurchFourMinutesColdTenTinyNervousFloridaSermonsCold Night Author:Billy Graham
“And all the world is football-shaped It's just for me to kick in space And I can see, hear, smell, touch, taste And I've got one, two, three, four, five Senses working overtime Trying to take this all in I've got one, two, three, four, five Senses working overtime Trying to taste the difference 'tween a lemon and a lime Pain and pleasure and the church bells softly chime.” WorldTryingI CanTwoPainThreeDifferencesChurchSpacePleasureFiveFourFootballTasteSmellSensesKicksBellsLemonsFive SensesLimesChimesTweensChurch Bells Author:Andy Partridge
“The New Testament was not produced as a single work issued by an authoritative Church for the instruction of its members. The four Gospels were composed in different times and places over perhaps a third of a century, and for a time circulated separately among a number of other narratives of our Lord's life (of which the newly discovered fragment of an unknown gospel may have been one).” MayHas BeensDifferentChurchNumbersLordFourCenturyMembersThirdsNarrativeInstructionTestamentFragmentsOur LordNew TestamentDifferent Times Author:Frederic G. Kenyon
“What the Latins have done in this text (1 John v, 7) the Greeks have done to Paul (1 Tim. iii, 16). They now read, "Great is the mystery of godliness; God manifest in the flesh"; whereas all the churches for the first four or five hundred years, and the authors of all the ancient versions, Jerome as well as the rest, read, "Great is the mystery of godliness, which was manifest in the flesh." Our English version makes it yet a little stronger. It reads, "Great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh."” YearsFirstsWellsLittlesDoneChurchFiveFourMysteryAtheismHundredStrongerAncientPositive AtheismFleshVersionsGreekLatinManifestGodliness Author:Isaac Newton
“The current version of... separation of church and state says you can be salt, and you can be light, but only inside the four walls of the church.” StatesLightChristianChurchReligiousFourWallCurrentsSeparationVersionsSaltChurch And StateSeparation Of Church And StateFour Walls Author:David Barton
“The schools, the courts, the media - all seem determined to erase Christian influence from public life and confine religion to the four walls of the church or home.” HomeSeemsSchoolChristianChurchReligiousFourInfluenceMediaWallCourtDeterminedErasePublic LifeFour Walls Author:Bruce L. Shelley
“Some men are like a church-organ -- you can play on them for a lifetime and always find new harmonies; others are like a music-box -- they have four or five thin jingles.” MenPlayChurchFiveFourHarmonyLifetimeBoxesOrgansJingles Author:Austin O'Malley
“The dismembering of a human being routinely in 30 minutes on an outpatient bases - or any other way - is barbaric. Four blocks from our church all year long - like churches within smelling distance of Auschwitz or Dachau or Buchenwald.” WayYearsHumansLongChurchHuman BeingsFourMinutesBasesDistanceBlockAbortionAuschwitzBarbaricDachauBuchenwald Author:John Piper