Quotes on the Church
"The early church was married to poverty, prisons and persecutions. Today, the church is married to prosperity, personality, and popularity.” - Leonard Ravenhill
"We are cursed with programs...we have a program for every category of the human, and the world goes to hell while we labor to make these manmade schemes work. The fruit of our labor is a generation of tares that has no reverence for God." - B. H.Clendennen
"Preaching and teaching was central, powerful, scriptural, life-changing and fruitful in the early church." - K. Malcomson
"The church is one generation away from extinction."
"The trademark of a corrupted church is the loss of her love for truth." - B.H. Clendennen
"We must recodnize that the Church is here to be a vital representation of Christ in every place." B.H. Clendennen
"Perhaps one of the greatest signs of decline is the overall public acceptance of the church…A look back into history reveals that the world accepts Christianity only after its life and vitality has been lost. Constantine did not embrace the Christianity of the upper room.” - B.H. Clendennen
"In New Testament times all hell rose up to prevent the local churches from coming into being. The significance of the presence of the Apostles in any city was fully recognised by the evil forces, and they - the Apostles - had either to be driven out or killed. The very existence of a local church was a testimony to, and an embodiment of, Christ's victory and authority over the evil powers." - T. Austin Sparks
"The Acts gives an insight overview example and pattern for us what the Church is and what it does. The Great commission dominated every ministry (evangelist, prophet, teacher), it was the heartbeat of every local church. If this is not the vision and commission of your church then it has missed the pattern. This is not just the task of an evangelist or missionary it is the task of every believer and every leader." - K. Malcomson
“A hundred thousand souls a day
Are passing one by one away,
In Christless guilt and gloom;
O Church of Christ, what wilt thou say,
When, in the awful judgment day
They charge thee with their doom?” - A.B. Simpson
"The supreme task of the Church is the evangelisation of the world." - Oswald J. Smith
"We must be more afraid of flattery from the camp of the enemy than persecution. Read the pages of Church history. Persecution never did the Church of God any harm, but compromise with the world has always robbed it of the power
of its purity." - James A Stewart
"May God grant us to see and behold again in our generation a Christ-centered, Bible-based, Spirit-filled Church that walks free from the carnality and flesh of man, the manipulation and control of man, and from the thinking and strategizing of the natural mind of man." - K. Malcomson
"We have one function as the Church - to manifest the Lord Jesus Christ." - K. Malcomson
"The apostles of Christ knew that to plant a Bible based, Christ centred, Spirit-filled Church, walking in holiness and preaching the gospel was true success. Many of these churches were poor, some were small, many were persecuted, there was little organisation apart from Christ as their Head and the Holy Spirit as their guide, but if they truely expressed the character of Christ this was indeed success." - K. Malcomson
"We need to explore the difference between the early Church and ourselves. For only there will we discover the secret of repeating the success of the first century Church." - B. H. Clendennen
"An unholy church! it is useless to the world, and of no esteem among men. It is an abomination, hell’s laughter, heaven’s abhorrence. The worst evils which have ever come upon the world have been brought upon her by an unholy church." - C.H. Spurgeon
"In the early church they were always amazed, in the modern church we want to be amused." - Leonard Ravenhill
“The chief danger of the Church today is that it is trying to get on the same side as the world, instead of turning the world upside down. - A. B. Simpson
"A Revived Church is the only hope for a dying world." - Andrew Murray
"We are cursed with programs...we have a program for every category of the human, and the world goes to hell while we labor to make these manmade schemes work. The fruit of our labor is a generation of tares that has no reverence for God." - B. H.Clendennen
"Preaching and teaching was central, powerful, scriptural, life-changing and fruitful in the early church." - K. Malcomson
"The church is one generation away from extinction."
"The trademark of a corrupted church is the loss of her love for truth." - B.H. Clendennen
"We must recodnize that the Church is here to be a vital representation of Christ in every place." B.H. Clendennen
"Perhaps one of the greatest signs of decline is the overall public acceptance of the church…A look back into history reveals that the world accepts Christianity only after its life and vitality has been lost. Constantine did not embrace the Christianity of the upper room.” - B.H. Clendennen
"In New Testament times all hell rose up to prevent the local churches from coming into being. The significance of the presence of the Apostles in any city was fully recognised by the evil forces, and they - the Apostles - had either to be driven out or killed. The very existence of a local church was a testimony to, and an embodiment of, Christ's victory and authority over the evil powers." - T. Austin Sparks
"The Acts gives an insight overview example and pattern for us what the Church is and what it does. The Great commission dominated every ministry (evangelist, prophet, teacher), it was the heartbeat of every local church. If this is not the vision and commission of your church then it has missed the pattern. This is not just the task of an evangelist or missionary it is the task of every believer and every leader." - K. Malcomson
“A hundred thousand souls a day
Are passing one by one away,
In Christless guilt and gloom;
O Church of Christ, what wilt thou say,
When, in the awful judgment day
They charge thee with their doom?” - A.B. Simpson
"The supreme task of the Church is the evangelisation of the world." - Oswald J. Smith
"We must be more afraid of flattery from the camp of the enemy than persecution. Read the pages of Church history. Persecution never did the Church of God any harm, but compromise with the world has always robbed it of the power
of its purity." - James A Stewart
"May God grant us to see and behold again in our generation a Christ-centered, Bible-based, Spirit-filled Church that walks free from the carnality and flesh of man, the manipulation and control of man, and from the thinking and strategizing of the natural mind of man." - K. Malcomson
"We have one function as the Church - to manifest the Lord Jesus Christ." - K. Malcomson
"The apostles of Christ knew that to plant a Bible based, Christ centred, Spirit-filled Church, walking in holiness and preaching the gospel was true success. Many of these churches were poor, some were small, many were persecuted, there was little organisation apart from Christ as their Head and the Holy Spirit as their guide, but if they truely expressed the character of Christ this was indeed success." - K. Malcomson
"We need to explore the difference between the early Church and ourselves. For only there will we discover the secret of repeating the success of the first century Church." - B. H. Clendennen
"An unholy church! it is useless to the world, and of no esteem among men. It is an abomination, hell’s laughter, heaven’s abhorrence. The worst evils which have ever come upon the world have been brought upon her by an unholy church." - C.H. Spurgeon
"In the early church they were always amazed, in the modern church we want to be amused." - Leonard Ravenhill
“The chief danger of the Church today is that it is trying to get on the same side as the world, instead of turning the world upside down. - A. B. Simpson
"A Revived Church is the only hope for a dying world." - Andrew Murray