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I am a pastor, and I teach and preach the Bible to my congregation every week. But the Bible is not a manufacturer's handbook. Neither is it a science textbook nor a guidebook for public policy.

~Adam Hamilton

Topics: Am Bible Congregation Every Manufacturer Neither Nor Pastor Policy Preach Public Public Policy Science Teach Textbook Week I Am

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I am a follower of Jesus Christ. The Bible is my primary way of knowing Him and what it means to follow Him. And I am a pastor, and I teach and preach the Bible to my congregation every week. But the Bible is not a manufacturer's handbook. Neither is it a science textbook nor a guidebook for public policy.

~Adam Hamilton

Topics: Am Bible Christ Congregation Every Follow Follower Him Jesus Jesus Christ Knowing Manufacturer Means Neither Nor Pastor Policy Preach Primary Public Public Policy Science Teach Textbook Way Week I Am

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I feel a part of the congregation. I've never had to do special music. The kids sing in the choir. It's just normal. We're treated like everybody else.

~Amy Grant

Topics: Choir Congregation Else Everybody Everybody Else Feel Had Just Kids Like Music Never Normal Part Sing Special Treated I Feel

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The decision to allow clergy to perform same-sex marriages at the discretion of the congregation poses challenges for seminaries training new pastors who come from denominations fundamentally opposed on biblical grounds to same-sex marriage.

~Anthea Butler

Topics: Allow Bible Challenges Clergy Come Congregation Decision Denomination Discretion Fundamentally Grounds Marriage Marriages New Opposed Pastors Perform Poses Same-Sex Same-Sex Marriage Training Who

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In the John Paul II days, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had the advantage of staying in his cupboard - the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - exchanging views only with the Pope, and speaking publicly only through carefully written missives on doctrinal issues.

~Carl Bernstein

Topics: Advantage Cardinal Carefully Congregation Cupboard Days Doctrine Exchanging Faith Had His Issues John John Paul Joseph Only Paul Pope Publicly Speaking Staying Through Views Written

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My grandfather once ventured upon publishing a volume of hymns. I never heard anyone speak in their favour or argue that they ought to have been sung in the congregation. In that volume, he promised a second if the first should prove acceptable. We forgive him the first collection because he did not inflict another.

~Charles Spurgeon

Topics: Acceptable Another Anyone Argue Because Been Collection Congregation Did Favour First Forgive Grandfather He Heard Him Hymns Inflict Never Once Ought Promised Prove Publishing Second Should Speak Sung Volume

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The church is not made up of one person but a whole congregation, and they should be able to interact with art without being told what to think.

~Chris Ofili

Topics: Able Art Being Church Congregation Interact Made Person Should Think Up Whole Without

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Our calling is not just within the walls of the congregation, but we are part of the life and community in which our condition resides.

~Clementa C. Pinckney

Topics: Calling Community Condition Congregation Just Life Our Part Resides Walls Which Within

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As a kid spending weekends in the Ozarks, I remember my granny's preacher shaking his fist, his jowls waving in the wind not unlike a bloodhound's, excoriating the congregation and condemning it to hell.

~Dana Loesch

Topics: Condemning Congregation Fist Granny Hell His Kid Preacher Remember Shaking Spending Unlike Waving Weekends Wind I Remember

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A group is as healthy as its 'social contract' is clear; a congregation as faithful as its covenant is mutually understood; a pastor as effective as the pastor's and people's commitment to trust and integrity is honored, guarded, and fulfilled.

~David Augsburger

Topics: Clear Commitment Congregation Contract Covenant Effective Faithful Fulfilled Group Guarded Healthy Honored Integrity Mutually Pastor People Social Social Contract Trust Understood

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