“Even as he would be guilty of falsehood who would, in the name of another person, proffer things that are not committed to him, so too does a man incur the guilt of falsehood who, on the part of the Church, gives worship to God contrary to the manner established by the Church or divine authority, and according to ecclesiastical custom.” MenGivingPersonsDoeWould BeNamesChurchDivineHe ManAuthorityWorshipGuiltCommittedContraryGuiltyCustomsCatholicismFalsehood Book:Summa Theologica.ed Source: Summa Theologica.ed
“For me, passion means whatever a person is willing to suffer for.'Apostolic passion,' therefore, is a deliberate, intentional choice to live for the worship of Jesus in the nations. It has to do with being committed to the point of death to spreading His glory. It's the quality of those who are on fire for Jesus, who dream of the whole earth being covered with the Glory of the Lord.” MeanPersonsWholeDreamEarthSufferingChoicesPassionJesusNationsQualityLordFireWillingWorshipGloryCommittedCoveredDeliberateApostolic Author:Floyd McClung
“Let us be bold enough to ask ourselves as Christians whether the Church of the Lord Jesus in the United States has anything to say to our nation and its ideologies of materialism, possessiveness, and the worship of financial security. Are we courageous enough to be a sign of contradiction to consumerism through our living faith in Jesus Christ? Are we committed enough to his gospel to become a countercurrent to the drift?” StatesEnoughChristianAsksJesusNationsChristChurchUnitedLordUnited StatesSecurityWorshipJesus ChristFinancialCommittedIdeologyContradictionMaterialismCourageousConsumerismOverconsumptionPossessivenessFaith In JesusFinancial Security Book:The Signature of Jesus Source: The Signature of Jesus
“It has been left to the last Christians, or rather to the first Christians fully committed to blaspheming and denying Christianity, to invent a new kind of worship of Sex, which is not even a worship of Life. It has been left to the very latest Modernists to proclaim an erotic religion which at once exalts lust and forbids fertility . . . The new priests abolish the fatherhood and keep the feast - to themselves.” FirstsKindHas BeensChristianLastsLeftSexChristianityWorshipCommittedLustPriestsFatherhoodEroticAbolishFertility Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Congregational singing is a holy act, and as I organize my thoughts, I hear my old pastor, Alistair Begg, reminding me that in our song worship, we have to be spiritually alive (dead people don't sing), spiritually assisted (through the enabling of the Holy Spirit), and spiritually active (committed to daily walking with the Lord).” PeopleSpiritSongLordAliveWalkingHolyWorshipSingingCommittedActiveHoly SpiritOrganizePastorMy ThoughtsRemindingEnablingDead People Author:Keith Getty
“I'm a committed Christian. I worship in my own way. That's my business. That's not the business of the pharisees who are going to preach to me about what I do and then do something else.” WayMindChristianMy OwnWorshipCommittedOwn BusinessMind Your Own BusinessPharisees Author:Howard Dean