Quotes About Church Membership

#1. We must re-grasp the idea of church membership as being the membership of the body of Christ and as the biggest honour which can come man's way in this world.

David Lloyd-Jones

#2. Increasing church membership is not the ultimate goal of Christians

Sunday Adelaja

#3. So if we approach church membership from the perspective of entitlement, we have it upside down. You always ask first what you can do for your church.

Thom S. Rainer

#4. The aim of the Church is to help the people to help themselves. Work is to be re-enthroned as the ruling principle of the lives of our Church membership

Heber J. Grant

#5. It appears, then, that the two processes are going on side by side, the decline of Church membership and the decline of dogma; the evacuation of the pew and the jettisoning of cargo from the pulpit.

Ronald Knox

#6. Healthy church membership means you find your joy in being last, instead of seeking your way and being first.

Thom S. Rainer

#7. Christianity means a lot more than church membership.

Billy Sunday

#8. I know the celestial criteria measure service, not status; the use of our talents, not the relative size of our talent inventories. I know that Church membership is not passive security but continuing opportunity.

Neal A. Maxwell

#9. Three, Christians who practice repentance should be the only ones allowed into church membership and leadership.

Mark Driscoll

#10. To attempt to pay for salvation with church membership, prayers, or good deeds is an insult to Christ, who paid the full price-and is a rejection of the gift of God's grace.

Dave Hunt

#11. The Christian church is a society of sinners. It is the only society in the world membership in which is based upon the single qualification that the candidate shall be unworthy of membership.

Charles Clayton Morrison

#12. Membership is the church's corporate endorsement of a person's salvation.

Mark Dever

#13. I long for a church that understands the dangers of entertainment and sees it for what is is: a lion crouching at the evangelical door, ready to devour us. We need a culture of evangelism that never sacrifices to the idolatry of entertainment, but serves up the rich fare found the gospel of Christ.

J. Mack Stiles

#14. Our membership in this Church ... should never be any cause for self-righteousness, for arrogance, for denigration of others, for looking down upon others. All mankind is our neighbor.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#15. No one, however powerful and successful, can function as an adult if his parents are not satisfied with him.

Frank Pittman

#16. Authors, he thought. Even the sane ones are nuts.

Dan Brown

#17. Mostly, I just like to write music and spend time with my family and friends and jam.

Aubrey Peeples

#18. Some major churches overemphasize the importance of preaching as a means to increase membership and fail to reach out with compassion to their neighbors in need.

Jimmy Carter

#19. Membership in the church is not country club membership. It's not about paying your dues and getting perks.

Thom S. Rainer

#20. There is nothing to guarantee the superior judgment, knowledge, and integrity of an inspector or a bureaucrat-and the deadly consequences of entrusting him with arbitrary power are obvious.

Alan Greenspan

#21. Conversion must mean more than just being a 'card-carrying' member of the church with a tithing receipt, a membership card, a temple recommend, etc. It means to overcome the tendencies to criticize and to strive continually to improve inward weaknesses and not merely the outward appearances.

Harold B. Lee

#22. For many landlords, it was cheaper to deal with the expense of eviction than to maintain their properties; it was possible to skimp on maintenance if tenants were perpetually behind; and many poor tenants would be perpetually behind because their rent was too high.

Matthew Desmond

#23. Oh, now don't act like the idea is so terrible. When you come down to it, what could be more romantic than a few hours of scrambling around in a cold, dripping hole known for occasionally flooding and drowning people?

Joe Hill

#24. When you are depressed, bear in mind the Lord's command to Peter to forgive a sinner seventy times seven (cf. Mt. 18:22). And you may be sure that He Who gave this command to another will Himself do very much more.

John Climacus

#25. Each holy temple stands as a symbol of our membership in the Church, as a sign of our faith in life after death, and as a sacred step toward eternal glory for us and our families.

Russell M. Nelson

#26. For a Christian to be a Christian, he must first be a sinner. Being a sinner is a prerequisite for being a church member. The Christian church is one of the few organizations in the world that requires a public acknowledgement of sin as a condition for membership.

R.C. Sproul

#27. Defining a mono-racial church as one that has more than 80 percent of its membership consisting of a single racial group, nearly nine in ten (86 percent) congregations, which account for 80 percent of churchgoers, remain essentially mono-racial.46

Robert P. Jones

#28. I have a lot to do with the writing, and also the production, but it would be wrong of me to say that I'm the most important member of the band, because everybody is important the way I see it.

Glenn Tipton

#29. I'm not technical. When I listen to music, I gravitate more toward the sonic aspect of it. The technical stuff of it, I get bored with it. These long solos? OK, already. You know your scales, big deal. I know it, too, but I don't want to do that.

Joey Santiago

#30. I'm spiritual. I'm religious. I'm a strong Christian and I'm a Catholic but I go to a Presbyterian Church. Occasionally I go to the Catholic church too. I take communion. I haven't transferred my membership or anything.

Wesley Clark

#31. I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.

Oliver Goldsmith

#32. The church will not be judged by the number of baptisms or upon the size of its membership, but upon how faithful it has been to teaching the whole counsel of God.

Jeffrey D. Johnson

#33. Until you have entered the house of the Lord and have received all the blessings which await you there, you have not obtained everything the Church has to offer. The all-important and crowning blessings of membership in the Church are those blessings which we receive in the temples of God

Thomas S. Monson

#34. We have a sacred responsibility to fulfill the threefold mission of the Church - first, to teach the gospel to the world; second, to strengthen the membership of the Church wherever they may be; third, to move forward the work of salvation for the dead.

Ezra Taft Benson

#35. The percentage of Americans who claimed membership in a church had been fairly low across the nineteenth century, though it had slowly increased from just 16 percent in 1850 to 36 percent in 1900.

Kevin M. Kruse

#36. We both saw something we liked, a willingness to have no walls, or maybe just an unwillingness to keep them standing.

Ian Caldwell

#37. A church has no right to make anything a condition of membership, which Christ has not made a condition of salvation.

Archibald Alexander Hodge

#38. It is one of the great weaknesses of reasonable men and women that they imagine that projects which fly in the face of commonsense are not serious or being seriously undertaken.

Margaret Thatcher

#39. The Church does not dispense the sacrament of baptism in order to acquire for herself an increase in membership but in order to consecrate a human being to God and to communicate to that person the divine gift of birth from God.

Hans Urs Von Balthasar

#40. The transcendent gift of the Holy Ghost, along with membership in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is bestowed by confirmation, by the laying on of hands by those having priesthood authority.

James E. Faust