People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
I don't have to go to church. The church is within me and the experience is my own. It's my life experience.
I think we are all trying to figure out what it means to be the Church as opposed to just doing church.
People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.
I do know this... I seem to reach a lot of previously unchurched people. So many people have told me they never went to church until they heard our message of hope that God is a good God who desires to bless those who are faithful and obedient to Him through Jesus Christ.
A church is an incubator, a nursery, a grade school. You start where people are and move them to where they need to be.
Whether a person is straight or gay, Republican, Democrat, good person, not a good person, they're all welcome, because to me, church is a place you're supposed to get healed and whole and loved.
I always felt that church is where I'm going to find my community and people to live my life with.
The Church is not an automobile showroom - a place to put ourselves on display so that others can admire our spirituality, capacity, or prosperity. It is more like a service center, where vehicles in need of repair come for maintenance and rehabilitation.
One of the things you'll discover... as you listen to your own soul is that you spend a great amount of your life trying to bring meaning to your own life. And, by the way, most people are not going to church, so the place they're actually trying to find meaning in their life is at work.