Top 46 Church Is Not A Building Quotes

#1. We all know that a church is not a building.

Robert H. Schuller

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#2. The church is far greater than [a building or denomination]. It includes the whole family of God - that vast unseen fellowship of men and women throughout the ages who belong to Christ. Paul wrote of "God's household, which is the church of the living God" [1 Timothy 3:15 NIV).

Billy Graham

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#3. The Church is not the building, its the people, its not just the gathering, its also the scattering ...

John Wimber

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#4. If all you are doing is spending time with the struggling members of your church and you are not building proactively into your church's culture, and you are being shortsighted and limiting the effectiveness of your ministry.

James MacDonald

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#5. Together we can build the people's Church, a true Church. Not just a hierarchy, or a building, but a real change inside people.

Rigoberta Menchu

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#6. Our fellowship with our Father must not be restricted in any manner to a church, room or building.

Sunday Adelaja

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#7. Over the road there was a church: a modern gray building, which constantly played a recording of church bells. Strange it was. Why no proper bells? I never went in but I bet it was a robot church for androids, where the Bible was in binary and their Jesus had laser eyes and metal claws.

Russell Brand

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#8. The English Puritans pulled down church and state to rebuild Zion on the ruins, and all the while it was not Zion, but America, they were building.

James Russell Lowell

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#9. We come to the house of the Lord to study the Word of the Lord and learn how to live according to the teachings of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, so when we step out of the church building and enter back into the activities of life, we can conquer the hindrances and attacks against us.

Mark T. Barclay

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#10. God literally moves his throne from heaven. When this happens the church is building a chair, a seat, a place for God to come.

Tommy Tenney

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#11. The church grew, and I gained a reputation for preaching, and people came, and it was a wonderful community. But we had a building that seated 82 people, and with a congregation then approaching 400 we were up to four services on Sunday, and everyone was tired.

Barbara Brown Taylor

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#12. Christianity is being concerned about [others], not building a million-dollar church while people are starving right around the corner. Christ was a revolutionary person, out there where it was happening. That's what God is all about, and that's where I get my strength.

Fannie Lou Hamer

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#13. Ludlow ... is probably the loveliest town in England with its hill of Georgian houses ascending from the river Teme to the great tower of the cross-shaped church, rising behind a classic market building.

John Betjeman

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#14. So our building of the visible Church becomes much like any natural business function, using natural means and natural motives.

Francis Schaeffer

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#15. Referring to the church as a building is like referring to people as two-by-fours.

Don Everts

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#16. Most churches don't have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.

Alan Hirsch

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#17. Its best, the church administers the sacraments by feeding, healing, forgiving, comforting, and welcoming home the people God loves. At its worst, the church withholds the sacraments in an attempt to lock God in a theology, a list of rules, a doctrinal statement, a building. But our

Rachel Held Evans

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#18. You tell me: Can you live crushed under the weight of the present? Without a memory of the past and without the desire to look ahead to the future by building something, a future, a family? Can you go on like this? This, to me, is the most urgent problem that the Church is facing.

Pope Francis

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#19. I do not apologize for advertising. I think it is as vital to the preservation of freedom in my country as the free exercise of publishing a newspaper or the free exercise of building a church or the free exercise of the right of trial by jury.

Thomas Dillon

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#20. It is not the building, but the people that make a church, and that is what we always forget.

Swami Vivekananda

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#21. One of the major failures of the church is not a focus on building disciples but a focus on building members.

Tony Evans

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#22. Mrs. May winced. She thought the word Jesus should be kept inside the church building like other words inside the bedroom.

Flannery O'Connor

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#23. The Church may have a building, but that is not its place. The building may be the church's location, but its space is in the shared humanity of its persons.

Andrew Root

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#24. The goal of a church is not to have a bigger building or budget but to see the word of God increase and disciples multiply

Kevin DeYoung

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#25. No light privilege is it to have a hand in building up the moral life of these new communities; no common honour surely to help to lay side by side with the foundations of their free political institutions the broad and deep foundations of the Church of God.

Henry Parry Liddon

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#26. Religion that is contained only within a church building is a weekend hobby, not a personal faith.

James Lankford

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#27. If the church were the goal, then sustaining that church would logically be the priority of the highest order. But if the Kingdom of God was the goal, then the Kingdom-building instrument would gladly self-sacrifice for the eternal prize.

Jeff Christopherson

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#28. The church of St. Peter at Berlin, notwithstanding the total difference between them in the style of building, appears in some respects to have a great resemblance to St. Paul's in London.

Karl Philipp Moritz

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#29. What I believe to be one of the major tragedies in the Church today. Namely, that evangelicals are biblical, but not contemporary, while liberals are contemporary but not biblical, and almost nobody is building bridges and relating the biblical text to the modern context

John Stott

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#30. Every church has a marketing plan! The only difference is that some are better than others! When I think of marketing I think of building a relationship with those within reach of your ministry who know nothing about your church or are disconnected from your people.

Gary Rohrmayer

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#31. The only thing God is building in this world is his church.

Bakht Singh

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#32. What is a church?-Our honest sexton tells, 'Tis a tall building, with a tower and bells.

George Crabbe

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#33. The public library building, in my view, is just a little lower than the church, the cathedral, the temple, the synagogue and the mosque. Within those walls and along those stacks, I have found security and assurance.

Maya Angelou

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#34. The Church must be forever building, for it is forever decaying within and attacked from without.

T. S. Eliot

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#35. We are not engaged in domestic politics, in church building or in social uplift work, but we are engaged in nation building.

Marcus Garvey

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#36. The main focus of this group is to help bridge the gifts and abilities of the pastor (and other staff) and laity in the church. Building the bridges that will link the faithfulness of the past with the possibilities of the future is crucial.

General Board Of Discipleship

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#37. When we start putting together systems to make sure that future generations obey, what we end up doing is building an institution that conforms people to a pattern. They don't have their own faith, they're living off the residue of faith of a previous generation.

Neil Cole

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#38. Blessings available in the temple. He said: I consider that the building of temples is one of the important things required by the Lord of the Latter-day Saints in the dispensation of the fulness of times, that we may go into those temples and not only redeem the living but redeem our

The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints

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#39. We drove past a small church, and the congregation had abandoned the building to stand outside in a circle with their heads bowed, maybe hoping their prayers would get a better signal on the lawn.

Heaven has notoriously bad reception.

Atom Yang

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#40. In an urban environment, a church building is a thing of the past.

Mark Batterson

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#41. The responsibility of building leadership in the Church belongs to the father and the mother ... As youth grow and mature through their teenage years and move toward adulthood, the Church picks up an important role in this process of giving youth an opportunity to lead, but it begins in the home.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

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#42. Not far from our house, and opposite the old church with the golden cross, stood a large building, even larger than the church, and having many towers.

Max Muller

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#43. . Well, Teclan, wanna know something? Your government may have shut down my church. They may have closed the doors of our building and made us all go home. But no matter where true believers are, you can't shut down their soul.

Bernadette Allen

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#44. Going to a bar or pool hall doesn't mean you're a drunk, just like sitting in a henhouse doesn't make you a chicken. It's the same in the opposite setting. Sitting in a church building doesn't make you a follower of Christ.

Jase Robertson

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#45. There is no separation between the gospel and culture, between how we live in society and how we live in our private lives, between the lordship of Jesus inside the four walls of a church building and outside that building.

Michael Brown

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#46. Another claims, "Every Christian is a church planter, every home is a church, and every church building is a
training center.

Neil Cole

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