Author: Administrador

One church growth marketer claims that the difference between “growth” and “evangelism” and “marketing” is only semantics. He is absolutely wrong. As historian David Potter pointed out in his penetrating analysis of advertising: “Once marketing becomes dominant, the concern is not with finding an audience to hear their message, but rather with finding a message … Continue reading “CHURCH
GROWTH”

As we advance through the centuries, light and life begin to decrease in the church. Why? Because the torch of the Scripture begins to grow dim and because the deceitful light of human authorities begins to replace it. Merle d’Aubigne

If you do not join in what the church is doing, you have no share in this Spirit. For where the church is, there is the Spirit of God; and where the Spirit of God is, there is the church and every kind of grace. Irenaeus The form of the church in any age is … Continue reading “CHURCH
AND HOLY SPIRIT”

When a church is truly convinced that prayer is where the action is, that church will so construct its corporate activities that the prayer program will have the highest priority. Paul E. Billheimer The effectiveness of the prayer program of a church will be in direct proportion to the depth of the individual prayer life … Continue reading “CHURCH
AND PRAYER”

The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church. G.K. Chesterton The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool. Martin Luther King, Jr.

The church is the daughter of the Word, not the Word’s mother. Martin Luther

Tell me what the world is saying today, and I’ll tell you what the church will be saying in seven years. Francis Schaeffer

The church of Christ is the multitude of all those who believe in Christ for the remission of sins, and who are thankful for that mercy and who love the law of God purely, and who hate the sin in this world and long for the life to come. This is the church that cannot … Continue reading “CHURCH,
TRUE”

Although tares, or impure vessels, are found in the church, yet this is not a reason why we should withdraw from it. It only behoves us to labor that we may be vessels of gold or of silver. But to break in pieces the vessels of earth belongs to the Lord alone, to whom a … Continue reading “CHURCH,
WITHDRAWING FROM”

Churching the unchurched is an absolute fallacy – it is like purposing to let the tares in. It is absolutely bizarre to want to make unsaved people feel comfortable in a church. The church is not a building – the church is a group of worshiping, redeemed, and sanctified people among whom an unbeliever should … Continue reading “CHURCH
AND EVANGELISM”