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The church in America has been deeply infiltrated by the __orld,_ and in the process it is beginning to copy and resemble the world in many of its activities.

There are many who sit in some churches week after week, year after year, without hearing the whole Gospel and knowing what it is to be born again. They hear a gospel which is incomplete, and consequently not good news at all.

The church isn__ just a particular building or congregation but the spiritual fellowship of all who belong to Jesus Christ. If we belong to Christ, we also belong to each other.

The church is far greater than [a building or denomination]. It includes the whole family of God__hat vast unseen fellowship of men and women throughout the ages who belong to Christ. Paul wrote of __od__ household, which is the church of the living God_ [1 Timothy 3:15 NIV).

The church should be setting the pace. The church should be taking its proper place of leadership in the nation . . .God help the church to wake up!

The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.

Unless the church quickly recovers the authoritative biblical message, we may witness the spectacle of millions of Christians going outside the institutional church to find spiritual food.

Many churches have molded their programs around the community__ot the Word of God.

In some churches today and on some religious television programs, we see the attempt to make Christianity popular and pleasant. We have taken the cross away and substituted cushions.

Before three thousand people were brought into the church on the day of Pentecost, the disciples had spent fifty days in prayer, fasting, and spiritual travail.

I am afraid the church is trying to speak out on too many issues that really do not concern the church. There are certain issues we know to be wrong__acial injustice, crime, gambling, dishonesty, pornography. On these matters we must thunder forth as the prophets of God.

What right does any church have even attempting to approve of lifestyles or certain acts for which God prescribed the death penalty in the Old Testament?

We have been trying to solve every ill of society as though society were made up of regenerate men to whom we had an obligationto speak with Christian advice.

The Bible nowhere teaches that the church will ultimately convert the whole world to Jesus Christ. There has never been a generation in history, nor will there ever be generation, in which the majority of the people will believe in Christ.

If we in the church want a cause to fight, let__ fight sin. Let__ reveal its hideousness. Let__ show that Jeremiah was correct when e said: __he heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked_ [Jeremiah 17:9 NKJV].

The church holds the key to revival. It is within our grasp.

Sometimes it is difficult to differentiate the Christian from the man of the world. In America, for example, churchgoing has become popular, but churchgoing may not necessarily be accompanied by genuine depth in prayer and Bible study or a change in lifestyle.

God__ church is a Bible-centered church, and it grows strong under persecution.