Quotes About Contemporary Church

#1. The contemporary church is so often a weak, ineffectual voice with an uncertain sound. It is so often the arch supporter of the status quo.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#2. A great reformation and revival-it will happen the same way the early Christians conquered Rome. Their program of conquest consisted largely of two elements: gospel preaching and being eaten by lions, a strategy that has not yet captured the imagination of the the contemporary church.

Douglas Wilson

#3. Perhaps one of the most powerful things the contemporary church could do is to confess our sins to the world, the humbly get on our knees and repent for the terrible things we have done in the name of God.

Shane Claiborne

#4. Over the years, I have studied church history as well as the contemporary church, and I noticed how rare it is for a God-glorifying transition of leadership to take place in a local church.

C.J. Mahaney

#5. This was just the way I imagined myself around Nancy Grace
available, yet distant.

Chelsea Handler

#6. Submitted to the Sec. of War. On principle I dislike an oath which requires a man to swear he has not done wrong. It rejects the Christian principle of forgiveness on terms of repentance. I think it is enough if the man does no wrong hereafter.

Abraham Lincoln

#7. This had to be Hell.Well, my
Hell, and funnily enough, my Hell was in a church, surrounded by people I - either do
or did - love.

Elizabeth Morgan

#8. The more we study the early Church, the more we realize that it was a society of ministers. About the only similarity between the Church at Corinth and a contemporary congregation, either Roman Catholic or Protestant, is that both are marked, to a great degree, by the presence of sinners.

D. Elton Trueblood

#9. Never allow the cross to lose it's centrality to the ministry of your church. I believe we ought to connect ancient truth to contemporary questions, but the ultimate source of hope for every problem we face in our lives is the cross where Jesus died.

Brandon Cox

#10. Unfortunately, the Church's position on most contemporary issues makes it hard to take them seriously.

Andres Serrano

#11. I come from an African Caribbean background. I've been influenced by a reggae church music style, contemporary gospel, and rock all fused together.

Laura Mvula

#12. Our true selves have scared people away. So we sometimes give them someone else to love unconditionally before introducing them.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#13. She wasn't really going to church anywhere, but she remained a contemporary evangelical to the back teeth. She had lost her faith while still managing to hang on to all the platitudes.

Douglas Wilson

#14. Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.

Dallas Willard

#15. The bad preacher takes the ideas of our own age and tricks them out into the traditional language of Christianity. The core of his thought is merely contemporary; only the superficies is traditional. But your teaching must be timeless at its heart and wear modern dress.

C.S. Lewis

#16. The basic question 'will I obey Christ 's teaching?' is rarely taken as a serious issue. For example, to take one of Jesus' commands, that is relevant to contemporary life, I don't know of any church that actually teaches a church how to bless people who curse them, yet this is a clear command.

Dallas Willard

#17. Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural expression.

Ralph Ellison

#18. I wake up every day with a smile on my face.

Bob Diamond

#19. Your will is still in you because God placed it in your mind, and although you can keep it asleep you cannot obliterate it.

Foundation For Inner Peace

#20. I did a series called Ned and Stacey for two years for Fox back in the 90s. I was writer on it as well as a producer, and it was very important to me that there were no contemporary references.

Thomas Haden Church

#21. To be a Christian is to be a theologian - a student of God and his will. The church is where believers should be nurtured in the practice of correct theology. The contemporary disdain for theological content and emphasis on self-image and emotions were not shared by the apostolic church.

R.C. Sproul

#22. 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

#23. Photography is, and has been since its conception, a fabulously broad church. Contemporary practice demonstrates that the medium can be a prompt, a process, a vehicle, a collective pursuit, and not just the physical end product of solitary artists' endeavors.

Charlotte Cotton

#24. Contemporary Christian church would normally think that things are impossible

Sunday Adelaja

#25. A life without once reading Hamlet is like a life spent in a coal mine.

Hector Berlioz

#26. Do what you do. This Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, New Year's Eve, Twelfth Night, Valentine's Day, Mardi Gras, St. Paddy's Day, and every day henceforth. Just do what you do. Live out your life and your traditions on your own terms.
If it offends others, so be it. That's their problem.

Chris Rose

#27. One of the biggest challenges to medicine is the incorporation of information technology in our practices.

Samuel Wilson

#28. Robert Hayward THE THIRTEENTH STEP Ancient Solutions to Contemporary Problems of Alcoholism and Addiction Using the Timeless Wisdom of the Native American Church Ceremony

Robert Hayward

#29. He still loved her - and every moment that he didn't have her hurt him deeply. That was why he'd spent the past nine days with a shadow of her soul, why he'd sought to reset the entire universe to have her back.

Lauren Kate

#30. The contemporary quarrel over church and state is not really about whether a wall of separation of church and state should exist or not ... The real question is what does 'separation' mean?

James Davison Hunter

#31. I've done every kind of touring known to mankind. I've played the big and the small places.

Julian Lennon

#32. Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.

Honore De Balzac

#33. The Church in contemporary America does not need more strategies, steps, or keys to the Christian life. The Church needs truth, and more specifically, the great foundational truths of historical Christianity.

Charles Leiter

#34. Remember: Always walk in the light. And if you feel like you're not walking in it, go find it. Love the light.

Roberta Flack

#35. A lot of film stars are just playing themselves in different frocks.

Imelda Staunton

#36. I think what we do is fairly unique on 'Psych,' and we just have to keep doing that because that's what got us where we are.

James Roday

#37. A church of dialogue in the contemporary world ... a church, taking on the mission of Jesus, which is in the world not to judge humanity, but to love it and to save it.

Claudio Hummes