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We're a part of the insurrection, trying to turn Christianity upside down. We're an experimental church: God's research and development arm.

~Erwin Mcmanus

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I think we are all trying to figure out what it means to be the Church as opposed to just doing church.

~Erwin Mcmanus

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You can plant a church and grow a church. That's not that hard to do, but it's harder to be a viable source of transformation in a city or your time or space.

~Erwin Mcmanus

Topics: Church City Grow Hard Harder Plant Source Space Time Transformation Viable You Your

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My primary assessment would be because American Christians tend to be incredibly self-indulgent, so they see the church as a place there for them to meet their needs and to express faith in a way that is meaningful for them.

~Erwin Mcmanus

Topics: American Assessment Because Christians Church Express Faith Incredibly Meaningful Meet Needs Place Primary See Tend Them Way Would

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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.

~Erwin Mcmanus

Topics: Actually Amount Bring Church Discover Find Going Great Life Listen Meaning Most One Of The Things Own People Place Soul Spend Things Trying Way Work You Your

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For four years, my mum allowed only church music in the house.

~Estelle

Topics: Allowed Church Four House Mum Music Only Years

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My training in Science of Mind had begun with my mother. She took me to a different church every Sunday, and she encouraged me to question the minister afterward.

~Esther Williams

Topics: Afterwards Begun Church Different Encouraged Every Every Sunday Had Me Mind Minister Mother Question Science She Sunday Took Training

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When I'm performing for the people, I am me, then. I am that little girl who, when she was five years old, used to sing at church. Or I'm that 15-year-old young lady who wanted to be grown and wanted to sing and couldn't wait to be smokin' a cigarette, you know?

~Etta James

Topics: Am Church Cigarette Five For The People Girl Grown Know Lady Little Little Girl Me Old People Performing She Sing Smokin Then Used Wait Wanted Who Years You Young Young Lady I Am

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The minute the church and pastors start saying what do people want and then giving it to them, we betray our calling. We're called to have people follow Jesus. We're called to have people learn how to forgive their enemies.

~Eugene H. Peterson

Topics: Betray Calling Church Enemies Follow Forgive Giving How Jesus Learn Minute Our Pastors People Saying Start Them Then Want

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Spirituality is no different from what we've been doing for two thousand years just by going to church and receiving the sacraments, being baptized, learning to pray, and reading Scriptures rightly. It's just ordinary stuff.

~Eugene H. Peterson

Topics: Baptized Been Being Church Different Doing Going Just Learning Ordinary Pray Reading Receiving Rightly Scriptures Spirituality Stuff Thousand Thousand Years Two Years

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