Pastors have historically understood their primary battle to be not the battle to build a big church, but the battle against the power of sin.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Preachers denounce sin as if it was available to everyone.
When pastors don't have rich spiritual lives with Christ, they become victimized by other models of success - models conveyed to them by their training, by their experience in the church, or just by our culture.
Religion is a very scary thing, because a pastor is in a position of power. And if you use that power badly, you ruin people's lives, and you ruin your own life.
The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.
Christians are not limited to any church.
People take sides on political things, such as the Vietnam War. War is immoral and war is wrong, but I don't think the clergy ought to bring it before the Church.
Those outside the church expect followers of Christ to live differently, yet today many in church are chasing after the world - not to win them, but to be like them.
Christianity has always seemed to fight a losing battle against race.
Churches, by the very reason of their structures, are monolithic and do not adapt easily. But in many cases, they, too, have allowed themselves to become allied or even part of an unjust establishment or system.
Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.