A church is an incubator, a nursery, a grade school. You start where people are and move them to where they need to be.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The Church is the new creation, it is life and joy, it is the sacramental fellowship in which we share the ultimate purpose of God, made real for us now in our hearing the Word and sharing the Sacrament.
I think we are all trying to figure out what it means to be the Church as opposed to just doing church.
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.
A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
A church of dialogue in the contemporary world... a church, taking on the mission of Jesus, which is in the world not to judge humanity, but to love it and to save it.
I was called to start a mission, not a church. There is a difference.
I always felt that church is where I'm going to find my community and people to live my life with.
A society whose members are united by the fact that they think in the same way in regard to the sacred world and its relations with the profane world, and by the fact that they translate these common ideas into common practices, is what is called a Church. In all history, we do not find a single religion without a Church.
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.
In an urban environment, a church building is a thing of the past.