I cannot fail to
I cannot fail to call the congregation to worship God, to listen to his Word, to offer themselves to God. Eugene H. Peterson
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I cannot fail to call the congregation to worship God, to listen to his Word, to offer themselves to God. Eugene H. Peterson
If people don’t know their pastor, it’s easy to put the pastor on a pedestal and depersonalize him or her. It’s also easy for pastors, who don’t know their congregations, simply to classify congregants as saved or unsaved, involved or not involved, tithers or non-tithers. Eugene H. Peterson
The loudest psalm singer in the congregation always is a reformed sinner. Elsa Maxwell
Or perhaps you notice a congregation of ladybugs on a rose stalk. Don’t invoke the old nursery saying and ask them to fly away home. Their house is not on fire. Your roses are, with aphids, which the ladybugs are feeding on – and you can bless yourself that they have come to your rescue. … Read more
The minister should preach as if he felt that although the congregation own the church, and have bought the pews, they have not bought him. His soul is worth no more than any other man’s, but it is all he has, and he cannot be expected to sell it for a salary. The terms are … Read more
I should not like to preach to a congregation who all believed as I believe. I would as lief preach to a basket of eggs in their smooth compactness and oval formality. Edwin Hubbel Chapin
In social institutions, the whole is always less than the sum of its parts. There will never be a state as good as its people, or a church worthy of its congregation, or a university equal to its faculty and students. Edward Abbey
Old churches must not simply stand as monuments to the past but as spiritual grandparents that have invested in the future by passing on their life to others and releasing their offspring to form new congregations. Church planting needs to be given priority by old-line denominations. Eddie Gibbs
I would love to see churches start using their Web sites to present video profiles of people within their congregations so that the average person could get a sense of what the life of the church (not the organization, but the people – the true church) is really like. Frank Minis Johnson
The congregation that I was raised in was one that sang and a non-instrumental fashion. It was all a cappella singing, and so that had a major influence on me. Dwight Yoakam