All TIMOTHY KELLER Quotes about “Church”

“If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God's poetic justice.”
“The church is not a museum for pristine saints, but a hospital ward for broken sinners.”
“The early church was strikingly different from the culture around it in this way - the pagan society was stingy with its money and promiscuous with its body. A pagan gave nobody their money and practically gave everybody their body. And the Christians came along and gave practically nobody their body and they gave practically everybody their money.”
“The Bible judges the church; the church does not judge the Bible. The Bible is the foundation for and the creator of the church; the church is not the foundation for or creator of the Bible. The church and its hierarchy must be evaluated by the believer with the biblical gospel as the touchstone or plumb line for judging all truth claims.”
“In a smaller church your pastoring sets up your preaching. In a larger church your preaching sets up your pastoring.”
“It takes more than a great church to reach a city, it takes a great movement of churches.”
“All Christians have opportunities to serve those who might never come to church or listen to a sermon.”
“In the church we have to deliberately let ourselves be transparent and accountable to others. We're a family.”
“If you and your church were to disappear off the face of the earth tomorrow, would anyone in the community around you notice you were gone? And if the community did even notice would they say 'we are really glad they are gone', or 'we are really going to miss them'?”
“The church is often like a football stadium where 22 people need a rest and thousands of people need exercise.”
“The ministry of mercy, then, is the best advertising a church can have. It convinces a community that this church provides people with actions for their problems, not only talk. It shows the community that this church is compassionate.”
“Most churches make the mistake of selecting as leaders the confident, the competent, and the successful. But what you most need in a leader is someone who has been broken by the knowledge of his or her sin, and even greater knowledge of Jesus' costly grace”
“All I know is, if I don't care about the poor, if my church doesn't care about the poor, that's evil.”
“The church does not simply have a missions department; it should wholly exist to be a mission.”
“A church must be more deeply and practically committed to deeds of compassion and social justice than traditional liberal churches and more deeply and practically committed to evangelism and conversion than traditional fundamentalist churches. This kind of church is profoundly counter-intuitive to American observers. It breaks their ability to categorize (and dismiss) it as liberal or conservative. Only this kind of church has any chance in the non-Christian west.”
“Christians tend to motivate others with guilt. We tend to say: You would do this if you were really committed Christians, indicating that we are committed and all that is needed is for others to become as good as we are! This is why so many churches quench the motivation of people for ministry. In our shoes, Paul would say: Remember the grace God has showered on youâ€”what does living out and enjoying that grace look like in this situation?”
“The church should be a place where people can be free to say that they are sinners.”

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