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“We made four feature films with Sherwood Baptist. The wonderful thing was the church (members) volunteered. It was an awesome atmosphere of attitudes. The hard part was (that) all four of the first feature films we made take place in modern-day Albany, Georgia. We know that not all of our films going to be (set in) modern-day Albany, Georgia.”

Knows Firsts Made Hard Film Church Attitude Four Wonderful Modern Members Atmosphere Features Wonderful Things Georgia Baptists Modern Day Church Members Albany

Author:Alex Kendrick

“It is the deepest desire of my heart to have every member of the Church worthy to enter the temple.”

Heart Desire Church My Heart Members Worthy Temples

Author:Howard W. Hunter

“Our spiritual immutarity never shows up more than in our lack of praying, be it alone or in a church prayer meeting. Let 20% of the chior members fail to turn up for rehearsal and the chior master is offended. Let 20% of the church members turn up for a prayer meeting, and the pastor is elated.”

Shows Past Spiritual Turns Church Prayer Failing Masters Praying Members Meetings Pastor Offended Rehearsal Church Members Prayer Meeting

Author:Leonard Ravenhill

“The Rule of 150 says that congregants of a rapidly expanding church, or the members of a social club, or anyone in a group activity banking on the epidemic spread of shared ideals needs to be particularly cognizant of the perils of the bigness. Crossing the 150 line is a small change that can make a big difference.”

Needs Bigs Social Differences Church Lines Groups Activity Members Ideals Clubs Spread Banking Expanding Peril Crossings Epidemics Small Changes Cognizant

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“When Christians in free countries win a soul for Christ, the new believer may become a member of a quietly living church. But when those in captive nations win someone, we know that he may have to go to prison and that his children may become orphans. The joy of having brought someone to Christ is always mixed with this feeling that there is a price that must be paid.”

Knows May Children Soul Country Feelings Joy Winning Nations Christ Church Members Paid Prison Believer Captives Free Country

Author:Richard Wurmbrand

“We declare our belief in Jesus Christ and accept Him as our Savior. He will bless us and guide us in all of our efforts. As we labor here in mortality, He will strengthen us and bring us peace in time of trials. Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints walk by faith in Him whose Church it is.”

Jesus Belief Christ Church Walks Effort Accepting Members Jesus Christ Labor Saint Guides Trials Latter Bless Mortality Savior Latter Days Latter Day Saints Walk By Faith

Author:L. Tom Perry

“What does it mean to be a Saint? In the Lord's Church, the members are Latter-day Saints, and they attempt to emulate the Savior, follow His teachings, and receive saving ordinances in order to live in the celestial kingdom with God the Father and our Savior Jesus Christ.”

Mean Doe Order Father Jesus Christ Church Lord Teaching Members Jesus Christ Saint Kingdoms Saving Latter Savior Celestial Emulate Ordinances Latter Days Latter Day Saints Savior Jesus

Author:Quentin L. Cook

“If the average church should suddenly take seriously the notion that every lay member man or woman is really a minister of Christ, we could have something like a revolution in a very short time.”

Ifs Men Should Christ Church Revolution Members Lays Notion Average Ministers Short Time

Author:D. Elton Trueblood

“When a leader in the Church inspires council members with vision, he helps them focus on their real mission so that they are ministering to people rather than merely administering programs.”

People Real Helping Church Leader Vision Focus Inspire Members Program Missions Council

Author:M. Russell Ballard

“Many council leaders and members will be surprised to discover how much more focused their work will become when they examine it through the lens of saving souls through the mission of the Church.”

Soul Church Leader Members Missions Focused Saving Lenses Council Saving Souls

Author:M. Russell Ballard

“The longer we are members of the Church, the better we understand the gospel, the more we will be inclined to be peacefully minded. The more diligently we follow the teaching of Christ, the slower we will be to be angry with each other and the quicker we will be to forgive each other.”

Christ Church Teaching Members Angry Forgiving

Author:Theodore M. Burton

“Contemporary American churches in particular do not require following Christ in his example, spirit, and teachings as a condition of membership-either of entering into or continuing in fellowship of a denomination or a local church.... Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have not yet decided to follow Christ.”

“Let everything that you do bring credit and honor to the Church, of which you are a member, and the Lord will bless you and magnify you. Let there be no animosity among you but only love, regardless of race, regardless of circumstances. Let us love one another as the Lord would have us do”

Church Race Lord Honor Circumstances Members Credit Bless Only Love Love One Another Animosity

Author:Gordon B. Hinckley

“Many atheistic books and blogs seethe with anger. Remarkably, the authors do not limit their anger to Christians. They seem most livid with God. I don't believe in leprechauns, but I haven't dedicated my life to battling them. I suppose if I believed that people's faith in leprechauns poisoned civilization, I might get angry with members of leprechaun churches. But there's one thing I'm quite sure I wouldn't do: I would not get angry with leprechauns. Why not? Because I can't get angry with someone I know doesn't exist.”

Source: If God Is Good: Faith in the Midst of Suffering and Evil

“Among the immediate obligations and duties resting upon members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints today, and one of the most urgent and pressing for attention and action of all liberty loving people, is the preservation of individual liberty.”

“I have faith that the Constitution will be saved as prophesied by Joseph Smith. It will be saved by the righteous citizens of this nation who love and cherish freedom. It will be saved by enlightened members of this Church-among others-men and women who understand and abide the principles of the Constitution....I testify that the God of heaven sent some of His choicest spirits to lay the foundation of this government, and He has now sent other choice spirits to help preserve it.”

“It is part of our "Mormon" theology that the Constitution of the United States was divinely inspired; that our Republic came into existence through wise men raised up for that very purpose. We believe it is the duty of the members of the Church to see that this Republic is not subverted either by any sudden or constant erosion of those principles which gave this Nation its birth.”

“Unless we members of the Church do all we can to preserve the freedoms we have within the bounds of the laws of God, we will be held accountable.”

Law Church Members Bounds Preserves

Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.

“It is an absurd fiction that the churches are useful. They are nothing more than propaganda centers for superstitious faiths and doctrines. Church members have a right to believe in and propagate their various doctrines. But they should pay every item of the cost, of this propaganda, including fair taxation for all church property.”

Should Believe Church Pay Fiction Cost Members Fairs Property Including Various Doctrine Absurd Propaganda Taxation Items Superstitious Church Members

Author:E. Haldeman-Julius

“Our bishops storehouses are not intended to stock enough commodities to care for all the members of the Church. Storehouses are only established to care for the poor and the needy. For this reason, members of the Church have been instructed to personally store a year's supply of food, clothing, and, where possible, fuel. By following this counsel, most members will be prepared and able to care for themselves and their family members, and be able to share with others as may be needed.”

Years May Has Beens Reason Enough Care Able Church Poor Share Needed Members Prepared Following Stores Fuel Clothings Commodity Be Prepared Bishops Needy Family Members

Author:Ezra Taft Benson

“[I]t is contrary to the economy of God for any member of the Church, or any one, to receive instruction for those in authority, higher than themselves . . . if any person have a vision or a visitation from a heavenly messenger, it must be for his own benefit and instruction; for the fundamental principles, government, and doctrine of the Church are vested in the keys of the kingdom.”

“My first church had seven members in it, and I have to remember, the rent was $225 a month and I worked for Union Carbide and took the check I made from work to pay for the rent to keep the church open.”

Firsts Made Remember Church Pay Months Members Unions Seven Checks

Author:T. D. Jakes

“When the church finds its members falling into gross and scandalous sins, then it is time for the church to awake and cry to God for a Revival of Religion.”

Fall Church Sin Cry Members Awake Gross Revival Scandalous

Book:Lectures on Revivals of Religion

Source: Lectures on Revivals of Religion

“In Freethinkers Hall, which before the Nazi resurgence was the national headquarters of the German Freethinkers League, the Berlin Protestant church authorities have opened a bureau for advice to the public in church matters. Its chief object is to win back former churchgoers and assist those who have not previously belonged to any religious congregation in obtaining church membership. The German Freethinkers League, which was swept away by the national revolution, was the largest of such organizations in Germany. It had about 500,000 members.”

“Exodus is a very large organization. My board of directors is supportive of me as the president of Exodus and are very much involved in my decision-making and those types of things. They're a wonderful and balanced group of people and I'm grateful for their support. Within the membership we have 270 or so members within the network of Exodus whether that's a local member ministry, a counselor or one of our members of our church association.”

“One of the most violent attacks on the Church in the Soviet Union was under Kruschev when, during a period of economic and political liberalization, he attacked the Church to demonstrate to old Party members that he hadn't lost it.”

Political Lost Church Party Economic Periods Members Unions Violent Soviet Soviet Union

Author:George Pattison

“The way that Russian Orthodox services work generally, and certainly the way that this worked, is that it goes on for hours and hours, and people wander in and wander out, and people talk the whole way through. One of the American women said to the other, "This is so beautiful. I can actually imagine maybe even becoming Orthodox." She went on and on, and finally a Russian seated just in front of her turned and said, "You are not member of church because it is beautiful; you are member of church because it is the single truth of God!"”

People Way Said I Can Whole Beautiful Hours Church Imagine Fronts Goes On Becoming Members Wander Orthodox American Woman Beautiful You Truth Of God

Author:Andrew Solomon

“If you don't want to have gay weddings in Mormon churches, that's fine. That's absolutely up to the members of the faith or the leadership of the faith. I would never suggest that the Mormon Church has to consecrate gay unions. But homosexuality runs at a fairly constant rate through all populations. There are many gay Mormons.”

Ifs Want Running Church Fine Gay Members Constant Unions Rate Population Homosexuality

Author:Andrew Solomon

“I do think that if the Church can see its way to greater tolerance, Church members will have greater exposure to gay people, and the lives of those gay people will be better.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Church Greater Gay Members Tolerance Exposure Gay People Church Members

Author:Andrew Solomon

“I'm a member of the Primitive Baptist Church, and they will buy every CD that I have released, but they don't me just to bring the instruments much into the church.”

Church Members Instruments Primitive Cds Baptists

Author:Ralph Stanley

“There is a moral virtue, a moral fidelity, ability and honesty, which other men, besides church members, are, by good nature and education, by good laws and good examples nourished and trained up in; so that civil places and trust and credit need not be monopolized into the hands of church members (who sometimes are not fitted for public office), while all others are deprived and despoiled of their natural and civil rights and liberties.”

“Churches whose members fight with one another have lost their vision for the lost.”

Fighting Lost Church Vision Members

Author:John C. Maxwell

“I think the hardest one had to do with suffering. It had to do with all of our church members and friends passing through difficult times. Sometimes it's the global climate: tsunamis, earthquakes, radiation. I think these kinds of questions are absolutely the most difficult, yet we need to be ready to respond to them because we have to be able as pastors to walk people through these valleys, these tough times in their lives.”

“When I was 18, I went to a Baptist church with my girlfriend, and had a breakthrough when a pastor laid hands on me on an altar call. I wept that evening and realized how numb I had become with God and how He was calling to me for restoration. I received that blessing and went on to raising my three children in a Lutheran Church in the Bay Area as a member of Journey.”

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Author:Jonathan Cain

“Along with church monies and the United Way, most of the others that I give the most to are organizations for which I have some personal connection in that they have affected family members; i.e., kidney, cancer, heart, and organ donation. My wife and I have also contributed to and been heavily involved with the Boys and Girls Club of Utah County.”

“Being a member of the Church has never placed any roadblocks in my personal and professional life.”

Church Members Professional Life Roadblock Personal And Professional Life

Author:LaVell Edwards

“My favorite story about O'Connor - one of them - is I was in Toronto at a pro-life conference.I had a session before he was to come on,I thought very moderately - that not have unwanted abortions was to have much more research on contraception. Two true-faith people came out of the audience, wrested the microphone out of my hand and said, `That is im - inappropriate, improper. Pro-lifers do not believe in contraception.' [John] O'Connor's watching this said,`I want to tell you I'm delighted that Nat is not a member of the Catholic Church. We have enough trouble as it is.'”

“I think at every moment in the last probably 100 years, when the institutional church had the opportunity to do the right thing, they did the wrong thing. They're a dying institution in many parts of the world because they refuse to ordain women or married people. And now they're a dying institution because some of their members did enormous harm to young people and instead of responding aggressively with humility, and with love, and with the confession of wrongdoing, they tried to spin it as though they were a political party, and that's just deplorable.”

“We love them [people who have same-sex attractions] as sons and daughters of God. They may have certain inclinations which are powerful and which may be difficult to control. If they do not act upon these inclinations, then they can go forward as do all other members of the Church.”

People Ifs May Certain Sex Difficult Church Powerful Son Members Daughter Attraction Inclination Son And Daughter Daughter Of God

Author:Gordon B. Hinckley

“A person with homosexual inclinations, where they're kept under control, or, if yielded to are appropriately repented of, is eligible to do anything in the Church that can be done by any member of the Church who is single.”

Ifs Persons Done Church Members Homosexual Inclination

Author:Dallin H. Oaks

“As a pastor, I have the opportunity every week to share the gospel publicly in a way that most of the members sitting in our church do not. However, that doesn't absolve them of the responsibility for reaching others with the gospel.”

Way Opportunity Church Responsibility Week Share Members Sitting Reaching Pastor

Author:Mark Dever

“I think the hardest questions had to do with suffering. It had to do with all of our church members and friends passing through difficult times. Sometimes it's the global climate: tsunamis, earthquakes, radiation. I think these kinds of questions are absolutely the most difficult, yet we need to be ready to respond to them because we have to be able as pastors to walk people through these valleys, these tough times in their lives.”

“I feel like I'm not living a life different than anyone else. You know, I live in a house with 5 kids and a wife, but I also travel on the road with a band of brothers, just doing life. I am a member of a church, but it's almost like it's a little church on our bus. It's about trying to pursue God and stay faithful to Him in this crazy world.”

Knows World Feels Trying Littles Different Kids House Church Wife Crazy Brother Band Members Pursue Faithful Bus Crazy World This Crazy World

Author:TobyMac

“I am a vicar's daughter and still a practising member of the Church of England.”

Stills Mother Church Members Daughter England Church Of England Vicars

Author:Theresa May

“As a member of the Mormon church, Romney is instructed to tithe 10 percent of his income. That's in keeping with most charitable giving: Religious institutions get about one-third of all contributions, according to 'The American' magazine.”

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Author:John Podhoretz

“The Eucharistic sacrifice of the body and blood of Christ embraces in turn the mystery of our Lord's continuing passion in the members of his mystical body, the church in every age.”

Body Age Turns Passion Christ Church Lord Sacrifice Mystery Blood Members Embrace Continuing Mystical Our Lord Eucharistic

Author:Pope Benedict XVI

“My sense is if the Episcopal Church can't stand challenge within its own ranks, then it is not a church I would want to be a member of anyway.”

Ifs Want Challenges Church Members Episcopalians

Author:John Shelby Spong

“The audience that I try to reach are members of what I call the church alumni association. Now they are people who have not found in institutional religion a God big enough to be God for their world.”

People World Trying Enough Bigs Found Church Audience Members Association Alumni

Author:John Shelby Spong

“I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday.”

People Mean Has Beens Community Church White Cases Members South Sunday Respectable Squad Church On Sunday

Author:Desmond Tutu

“Ministers should impress upon the people the necessity of individual effort. No church can flourish unless its members are workers. The people must lift where the ministers lift.”

People Should Individual Church Effort Members Workers Lifts Ministers Impress Individual Effort

Book:Ellen G. White Review and Herald Articles - Book I of IV

Source: Ellen G. White Review and Herald Articles - Book I of IV

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