Local Church Quotes

This truth of the gathering together of God's children is in Scripture seen realised in various localities, and in each central locality the Christians resident therein composed but one body: Scripture is perfectly clear on that head.

Nothing on earth has greater potential to change lives and carry out His kingdom work in your community, than your local church.There's nothing like the local church when it's working right. Its beauty is indescribable. Its power is breathtaking. Its potential is unlimited. No other organization on earth is like the church. Nothing even comes close.

Every believer is commanded to be plugged in to a local church.

Jesus is the hope of the world and the local church is the vehicle of expressing that hope to the world.

There is nothing like the local church when the local church is working right.

Many believe one can be a "good Christian" without joining (or even attending) a local church, but God would strongly disagree.

When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.

The local church is the hope of the world.

Apologetics has an important place in the local church as we seek to influence our communities for Christ in an increasingly skeptical culture.

Every church, however local, is holy ground, and equally so.

If you are a local church or non-profit, you live and die with volunteers.

The local church is the hope of the world, and its future rests primarily in the hands of its leaders.

Every local church has a leader but it seems so few local churches are being led.

I have a group of people, about 40, in a local church in Surrey in England, who pray for me regularly.

My fear is that of all the choices people face today, the one they rarely consider is, "How can I serve most effectively and fruitfully in the local church?" I wonder if the abundance of opportunities to explore today is doing less to help make well-rounded disciples of Christ and more to help Christians avoid long term responsibility and have less long-term impact.

The person who had the greatest influence in my life was my dad, who was a wonderful small businessman, devoted to his family, devoted to the local church.

A local church will only be as great as its conception of God.

I'm a pastor of a local church. I'm not a televangelist. I've never had a televised program. I'm a pastor. A pastor's role is to care and comfort, encourage, teach, and everything that I do, even when I meet with world leaders, is from a pastor's heart.

Well, of course I think people can be forgiven. But our justice system is not set up to dispense forgiveness. You can go to the local priest for that.

Evangelism and the local church are inseparable. It's like the Good Samaritan seeking an inn for the one he rescued.

God wants every local church to be the first place people think to go when they've really messed up...not the last.

If the Church of England were to fail, it would be found in my parish

Sunday is the best day of the week because we celebrate the risen Christ of the cross in the local church, the dearest place on earth.

As I look around on Sunday morning at the people populating the pews, I see the risk that God has assumed. For whatever reason, God now reveals himself in the world not through a pillar of smoke and fire, not even through the physical body of his Son in Galilee, but through the mongrel collection that comprises my local church and every other such gathering in God’s name. (p. 68, Church: Why Bother?)

Over the years, I have studied church history as well as the contemporary church, and I noticed how rare it is for a God-glorifying transition of leadership to take place in a local church.