The more members of the clergy that are out there working to expand their congregations, the more people will go to church.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
Far more books get written about how to get more people in your church than how to get the people already in your church to have more humility and sincere love.
We spend more time at cinemas, theaters, art galleries and theme parks than we do at churches, and they have become our new cathedrals. We can spend hours at any of these places of entertainment but if church service goes on too long we get impatient.
Those who belong to megachurches display as high a level of personal commitment as do those who attend small congregations.
The Church exists to connect people at the level of their hunger for a new world.
The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.
Being around a church culture, even leading a gathering of believers, I've gotten pretty good at predicting what's going to happen in a church service.
For individuals to become fully active in the Church, they generally must experience a spiritual conversion and a social integration.
Ministers should impress upon the people the necessity of individual effort. No church can flourish unless its members are workers. The people must lift where the ministers lift.
The church is in the hope business.
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