“The first organization structure in the modern West was laid down in the canon law of the Catholic Church eight hundred years ago.” YearsFirstsLawChurchModernHundredYears AgoOrganizationCatholicStructureWestEightCatholic ChurchCanon Author:Peter Drucker
“I've never known anyone who has fallen into sin and been successfully restored by the formal church structure. Nor have I ever seen a formal church structure wisely deal with sin, enabling ministry to continue without interruption.” ChurchSinDealsKnownStructureFallenMinistryFormalEnablingInterruptions Book:The Life-Giving Church Source: The Life-Giving Church
“I don't think it has to be one religious structure, one church. I think the issues of faith and redemption are much more universal than any one religion.” ThinkingChurchReligiousIssuesUniversalStructureRedemption Author:Kathleen Turner
“When any sector of the Church stops learning, God simply overflows the structures that are in the way and works outside them with those willing to learn.” WayChurchWillingStructureWork OutOverflowWilling To Learn Author:Brian D. McLaren
“Contemporary Christianity, diverse and complex as we find it, actually may show more unanimity than the Christian churches of the first and second centuries. For nearly all Christians since that time, Catholics, Protestants, or Orthodox, have shared three basic premises. First, they accept the canon of the New Testament; second, they confess the apostolic creed; and third, they affirm specific forms of church institution. But every one of these - the canon of Scripture, the creed, and the institutional structure - emerged in its present form only toward the end of the second century.” FirstsMayEndsShowsChristianFormReligionThreeChurchAcceptingChristianityCenturyThirdsCatholicInstitutionsStructureComplexesScriptureContemporaryOrthodoxCreedsDiverseTestamentPremisesNew TestamentProtestantsChristian ChurchCanonApostolicUnanimity Author:Elaine Pagels
“But I make a distinction between the doctrines of the Church, which matter, and the structure invented by half a dozen Italians who got to be pope and which is of very little use to anybody.” LittlesMatterUseChurchHalfStructureDoctrineDistinctionDozenPope Author:Bernadette Devlin
“While the focus in the landscape of Old World cities was commonly government structures, churches, or the residences of rulers, the landscape and the skyline of American cities have boasted their hotels, department stores, office buildings, apartments, and skyscrapers. In this grandeur, Americans have expressed their Booster Pride, their hopes for visitors and new settlers, and customers, for thriving commerce and industry.” WorldGovernmentChurchCitiesFocusBuildingPrideIndustryOfficeStructureCustomersStoresLandscapeDepartmentHotelRulersCommerceApartmentGrandeurVisitorsOld WorldSkyscraperResidenceSettlersAmerican CitiesDepartment StoresSkylinesOffice Buildings Author:Daniel J. Boorstin
“Human artifacts not only include material structures and objects, such as buildings, machines, and automobiles, but they also include organizations, organizational structures like extended families . . . tribes, nations, corporations, churches, political parties, governments, and so on. Some of these may grow unconsciously, but they all originate and are sustained by the images in the human mind.” MindHumansMayGovernmentPoliticalNationsGrowsChurchPartyObjectsBuildingMaterialsMachinesOrganizationStructureCorporationsHuman MindTribesPolitical PartiesAutomobileOrganizationalArtifactsExtended FamilyOrganizational Structure Author:Kenneth E. Boulding
“This new large-scale spiritual awakening is occurring primarily not within the confines of the established religions, but outside of those structures. Some of it, however, is also happening within the existing churches and religious institutions wherever the members of those congregations do not identify with rigid and exclusive belief systems whose unconscious purpose is to foster a sense of separation on which the egoic mind structures depend for their survival.” MindSpiritualPurposeBeliefChurchReligiousDependsMembersSurvivalHappeningsInstitutionsStructureAwakeningSeparationScalesUnconsciousExclusiveSpiritual AwakeningBelief SystemsCongregationLarge Scale Author:Eckhart Tolle