There's always the tendency to transform the Church into an ethical agency, and of measuring the Church by the yardstick of social and cultural utility.
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The Ethical Society, therefore, is like a Church in maintaining, and emphasizing the importance of maintaining the custom of public assemblies on Sunday.
Many churches of all persuasions are hiring research agencies to poll neighborhoods, asking what kind of church they prefer. Then the local churches design themselves to fit the desires of the people. True faith in God that demands selflessness is being replaced by trendy religion that serves the selfish.
Since politics fundamentally should be a moral enterprise, the church in this sense has something to say about politics.
There is a continuum of values between the churches and the general community. What distinguishes the handling of these values in the churches is mainly the heavier dosage of religious vocabulary involved.
Due to our consumer mindset, people are prone to jump from church to church, which weakens the church overall.
What's true for churches is true for other institutions: the older and more organized they get, the less adaptable they become. That's why the most resilient things in our world - biological life, stock markets, the Internet - are loosely organized.
The church is not a political power; it's not a party, but it's a moral power.
I believe that for lots of churches and religious institutions, their main focus on the development of faith among parishioners needs to spread to the community.
When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.
The minister of the Gospel is really the yardstick by which the nation measures its morals.
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