Charles R. Swindoll Church Quotations

When a church is spending more of its budget on media than shepherding, something is out of whack. We have gotten things twisted around.

'We really shouldn't look like a church.' I've heard that so much I want to vomit. 'Why?' I ask. 'Do you want your bank to look like a bank? Do you want your doctor's office to look like a doctor's office, or would you prefer your doctor to dress like a clown?'

While I was raised around churches and had gotten to know a few preachers fairly well, the thought never entered my head that I would one day stand and deliver. Not only was I not interested, I lived with a major struggle: I stuttered.

The skeptic may deny your doctrine or attack your church but he cannot honestly ignore the fact that your life has been changed.

It's not our church; it's God's - it's not our responsibility to run it!

So, you want to be like Christ? Me too. But that kind of godliness won't just happen by hanging around a church or thinking lofty thoughts three or four times a day or learning a few verses of Scripture. It will take more - much more. Disciplining ourselves will require the same kind of focused thinking and living that our Master modeled during His brief life on earth.

Wouldn't you like to contribute to an event that is part of Christ's own prediction, "I will build my church"?