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There is an obsession in the Church with sin management. People think more about their sins than about their redemption through Jesus

Grace has a face. It is Jesus Christ.

Spiritual maturity is not defined by how well one applies Biblical principles to __uppress sin_.

I sometimes wonder if God calls us into the church because it represents not the people of God at their best but us at our worst. I wonder if he calls us to become embedded in this wretched institution precisely because it is wretched. And calls us to be a part of it not to reform it or save it or control it in any way, but to simply love it.

The church is blending into the community by embracing what the world enjoys and, in turn, bringing inside the church the world__ ideas and interests.

Down through the centuries the church has contributed more than any other single agency in lifting social standards to new heights.

In our desire to make Christ known and to increase the influence of the church, we are many times prone to think that Christians and the church can be made popular with the unbelieving world. This is a grave mistake on the part of the church.

Christ__ church is a place to grow people up in the Lord, not to enhance our leisure time.

Satan] invades the Sunday school, the Bible class, and even the pulpit. He even invades the church under cover of an orthodox vocabulary, emptying sacred terms of their biblical sense.

If the church is acceptable to this present ageand is not suffering reproach, then it is not the true church that our Lord founded.

The church has lost its ability to discipline members who live openly in sin. Consequently, we have lost our witness in the community.

Thousands of people have entered churches without discovering a vital experience with Jesus Christ. The substitutes have been handed them in the guise of religious rituals, good works, community effort, or social reform . . .none of which can gain a person a right relationship with God.

It is vitally important for local church leaders to keep in touch with the spiritual state of their members, to discuss their level of biblical knowledge, and to teach them how to study God__ Word and pray.

The church should not reflect pop culture but portray godly attributes. The church should not seek pleasures but seek after God.

I hope the day will never come when the church abandons the __lass meeting_ and the prayer service . . .The old-fashioned __estimony_ meeting should be revived, for through this medium we can share with others our faith and triumphs as well as our needs and mistakes.

It could be said that going to church will not make one a Christian. But . . . refusing to fellowship with believers will not make you one either.

The Lord did not design the church to cater to people__ needs__he Lord breathed life into the church to proclaim His truths.

The blood of Christ purchased the church.