Once I returned to the Church and began to see the universe as a place that really did incorporate redemption and really tried to understand the impl….
Fixing things requires change and change always creates conflict. But that is why you are a leader..
Being accepted by the world is the worst thing that can happen to the Church..
The early Church had nothing but the Old Testament. The New Testament lies hidden in the Old; the Old Testament lies open in the New..
In leadership there are always problems to be solved and tensions to be managed. When you try to solve a tension, you create a problem..
Charisma on stage is not necessarily evidence of the Holy Spirit..
Satan has been the best friend the Church has ever had, as He has kept it in business all these years!.
The black groups that boycott certain films would do better to get the money together to make the films they want to see, or stay in church and leave….
Everything in life has its price..
Whatsoever is, is in God..
On day one, the Church wasn't for church people because there weren't any church people..
Christianity contains within itself a germ hostile to the Church (Dietrich Bonhoeffer).
If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes..
Forget the state concerns -- we think this is bad for churches. Most churches are small and not ready to handle 500 pages of government red tape..
I visualize the day that tridents and pentagrams are thrust into the sky from church roofs instead of crosses..
Well, I've never left my faith - but have I made a lot of mistakes? But was I fortunate that I was brought up in that Pentecostal church, where I hea….
I like my work to stand on its own as much as possible..
Do not seek to be loved at any price, because Love has no price..
Every local church has a leader but it seems so few local churches are being led..
Art in the Church fundamentally exists for evangelization.
Church can’t be a place where we feel like a visitor, or somewhere we’re afraid to allow others to see our messes. It’s got to feel like home..