“I think there's an awful lot of noise about the Church being persecuted but there is a more real issue that the conventional churches face - that the people who are really driving their revival and success believe in an old-time religion which, in my view, is incompatible with a modern, multi-ethnic, multicultural society.” PeopleThinkingBelieveRealFacesChurchViewsIssuesModernDrivingNoiseAwfulConventionalRevivalPersecutedMulticulturalOld TimeMulticultural Society Author:Trevor Phillips
“Of all persecuted sects, the Baptists stand forth as most prominent, simply and only because they aim at a more complete and thorough reform than any others ever attempted. They teach that Christ's kingdom is not of this world; that the church is not a national, political, or provincial establishment; but a congregation of holy men, separated from the world by the receiving of the Holy Spirit.” MenWorldPoliticalSpiritChristChurchTeachThis WorldHolyAimKingdomsReformHoly SpiritEstablishmentReceivingBaptistsThoroughSectsCongregationProminentPersecutedHoly Man Book:Babtists, the Only Thorough Religious Reformers Source: Babtists, the Only Thorough Religious Reformers
“The idea of separating church and state by the Founding Fathers of America was freedom from the domination of one form of religion, because many of them left England, because they were persecuted by the church, because they want to express their Christian faith in a different way. So it was a bit of warfare between Christians.” WayWantIdeasDifferentStatesChristianAmericaFormFatherLeftBitsChurchEnglandDifferent WaysWarfareFoundingDominationChurch And StateChristian FaithPersecutedSeparatingFounding Fathers Of America Author:John Lennox