Quotes by Church My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today. Al Sharpton baptists church age The question is: until reinforced, can we learn the ways of church mice. Al Swearengen mice church way I went to church and couldn't swallow it. The music was nice but I don't belong there. Alain de Botton nice church The notion that the church, the press, and the universities should serve the state is essentially a Communist notion. In a free society these institutions must be wholly free - which is to say that their function is to serve as checks upon the state. Alan Barth liberty government church But it's a poor church that cares only for what happens to a soul after it leaves this life." -Damien Alan Brennert care church soul I think that's really where we need to be more consistent as believers. Exodus will do that for people who come to us for help. But we will encourage the church to do that in general for anyone and everyone who's seeking to be a mature believer in Christ. Alan Chambers church people thinking Yes, believers and non-believers and skeptics can all live together and get along. But there cannot be an imperialistic imposition of religion by the state or by the church. All people must be equal--believers, skeptics, disbelievers, atheists, and those who chose religion. Unless we are all deemed equal, and unless the morality of disbelief is deemed the equivalent of the morality of belief, we will simply be tolerated, and that is not the American way. Alan Dershowitz church atheist people I grew up in the church, with traditional hymns, but at the same time I was beginning to listen to pop music, the mid-60s, The Beatles, which had just as much influence on me as those hymns did. Then the hippy stuff like Pink Floyd started to raise questions about how I lived my life and the world in which I lived. Alan Green raises-questions hymns church The bible is not a blueprint for every day of your life, it is an inspiration not a blueprint. That requires that we listen to one another and get challenged and grow by living with difference within the body of the church. Alan Green differences church inspiration I think what we're really bad at doing is recognising that it is possible to have lost of different views within the church. Alan Green church views thinking I'd signed up not just for Christianity but the established Church of England. That has a particular history and I think we rather lost it in the 19th Century, we became so much part of empire and colonialism, the language of the Church Of England still reflects that Victorian time. As the 20th Century developed, not surprisingly people left the church and I can see the church's role in losing people. Alan Green church people thinking It's not so much that the church has a mission, it's that the mission of God has a church. Alan Hirsch missions church You plant the gospel. You don't plant churches. Alan Hirsch church leadership christian In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves. Alan Hirsch church bird baby Because we believe that somewhere in the nest of paradigms contained in the phrase "missional church" lies nothing less that the future viability of Western Christianity. Alan Hirsch church believe lying Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries. Alan Hirsch bored church christian 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 sunday church imagination Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual irrelevance. Alan Hirsch irrelevance church reflection Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church. Alan Hirsch church dying thinking A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey. Alan Hirsch missional-church church journey «1234567891011»