“Any church program, no matter how impressive, if it is not supported by an adequate prayer program, is little more than an ecclesiastical treadmill. It is doing little or no damage to Satan's kingdom.” IfsLittlesMatterChurchPrayerProgramKingdomsSatanDamageAdequateImpressiveTreadmills Author:Paul Billheimer
“When a church is truly convinced that prayer is where the action is, that church will so construct its corporate activities that the prayer program will have the highest priority.” ActionChristianChurchPrayerActivityHighestProgramConvincedPrioritiesCorporateConstructs Author:Paul Billheimer
“I am also actively involved in my church and its community activities. We have programs to improve the lives of our congregation and programs of outreach in the community.” CommunityChurchInvolvedActivityProgramCongregationOutreach Author:Samuel Wilson
“I'm a pastor of a local church. I'm not a televangelist. I've never had a televised program. I'm a pastor. A pastor's role is to care and comfort, encourage, teach, and everything that I do, even when I meet with world leaders, is from a pastor's heart.” WorldHeartCareChurchLeaderRolesTeachComfortProgramLocalsPastorWorld LeaderLocal Church Author:Rick Warren
“As in 1925, creationists are not battling for religion. They have been disowned by leading church men of all persuasions, for they debase religion even more than they misconstrue science. They are a motley collection to be sure, but their core of practical support lies with the evangelical right, and creationism is a mere stalking horse or subsidiary issue in a political program...The enemy is not fundamentalism; it is intolerance. In this case, the intolerance is perverse since it masquerades under the 'liberal' rhetoric of 'equal time'.” MenHas BeensPoliticalLyingReligionChurchEnemyCasesSupportIssuesEqualProgramHorseMereCorePracticalsCollectionsIntoleranceRhetoricFundamentalismPersuasionStalkingEvangelicalCreationismMasquerade Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“Therefore, when I look for a church, I look for the music that best fits me and the programs that best cater to me and my family. When I make plans for my life and career, it is about what works best for me and my family. When I consider the house I will live in, the car I will drive, the clothes I will wear, the way I will live, I will choose according to what is best for me. This is the version of Christianity that largely prevails in our culture. But it is not biblical Christianity.” WayLooksCultureHouseChurchChristianityCareersPlansCarFitClothesProgramMy FamilyVersionsBiblical Author:David Platt
“I have followed the Church in giving our party program the character of unalterable finality, like the Creed. The Church has never allowed the Creed to be interfered with. It is fifteen hundred years since it was formulated, but every suggestion for its amendment, every logical criticism, or attack on it, has been rejected.” GivingYearsHas BeensCharacterChurchReligiousPartyHundredProgramCriticismLogicalAmendmentsCreedsFifteenRejectedSuggestionsFinality Author:Adolf Hitler
“Epic: A Journey Through Church History fills an urgent need for adult Catholics to recover their history as a believing community, debunk false criticisms of their Church, and understand the Christian underpinnings of the modern world. This is a vivid, thorough and engaging program. I heartily recommend it.” WorldNeedsBelieveChristianCommunityChurchJourneyModernAdultsProgramCriticismCatholicEpicEngagingVividModern WorldUrgentThoroughChurch History Author:Charles J. Chaput
“I come from a culture that embodies the need to convert others to "the truth." The Mormon Church has one of the largest missionary programs in the world. That does not interest me.” WorldNeedsDoeCultureInterestChurchProgramMissionary Author:Terry Tempest Williams
“I think that the church in America today is so obsessed with being practical, relevant, helpful, successful, and perhaps well-liked that it nearly mirrors the world itself. Aside from the packaging, there is nothing that cannot be found in most churches today that could not be satisfied by any number of secular programs and self-help groups.” ThinkingWorldWellsSelfHelpingTodayAmericaFoundChurchNumbersSuccessfulGroupsSelf HelpProgramMirrorsPracticalsSatisfiedObsessedHelpfulRelevantSecularAmerica TodayPackagingChurch Today Book:Christless Christianity: The Alternative Gospel of the American Church Source: Christless Christianity: The Alternative Gospel of the American Church
“Important thing about myth is that it's not just something that you believe, a myth is essentially a program for action. And unless you translate a mythical story, or a doctrine out of the church, into practical action, it just remains incomprehensible. Rather like the rules of a board game which seem very sort of dull and complicated and incomprehensible until you pick up the dice and start to play, when everything falls into place.” BelieveImportantPlayStoriesSeemsActionFallGamesChurchPicksProgramRemainsImportant ThingsComplicatedMythPracticalsDoctrineBoardsDullTranslateDiceFall Into PlaceBoard GamesEverything Falls Into Place Author:Karen Armstrong
“A few places are especially conducive to inspiration - automobiles, church - public places. I plotted Couples almost entirely in church - little shivers and urgencies I would note down on the program, and carry down to the office Monday.” LittlesInspirationChurchCoupleOfficeProgramNotesMondayAutomobileUrgencyShiver Author:John Updike