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"Our first responsibility is not to build the church or even to get souls saved--it is to represent christ and to bring His message to the world. As God beholds us in christ, so the world must behold christ in us. As christ represents us before the Father, so we must represent christ before the world." »Cornelius Stam
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"Anyone who is to find christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where christ is and what faith in him is unless he knew where his believers are" »Martin Luther
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"As we face a new era of world history, there is an urgent need for the true church of Jesus christ, the Body of christ, to be about the business God has called us to, the work of ministry. And this is a work that every believer is called to be actively involved in." »Edward Bedore
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"Now the church is not wood and stone, but the company of people who believe in christ." »Martin Luther
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"What a wonderful thing it is to be sure of one's faith How wonderful to be a member of the evangelical church, which preaches the free grace of God through christ as the hope of sinners If we were to rely on our works--my God, what would become of us" »George Frederick Handel
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"The primary task of the church is not to mend the manners of the community, but to proclaim the matchless Gospel of the Lord Jesus christ. When men hear that Gospel and believe it, their lives will give evidence of their faith." »Walter Dale Langtry
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"christ is the Master the Scriptures are only the servant. The true way to test all the Books is to see whether they work the will of christ or not. No Book which does not preach christ can be apostolic, though Peter or Paul were its author. And no Book which does preach christ can fail to be apostolic though Judas, Ananias, Pilate or Herod were its author." »Martin Luther
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"Men are doubtful and skeptical about the church they suspect and dislike the clergy they are impatient of theological systems but for Jesus christ, as he stand out to view in the sacred pages, as they dimly realize him in their own best selves, as they catch faint traces of him in the lives of his saints, they have no other sentiments than those of respect and affection." »Herbert Hensley Henson
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"There is a difference between Moses and Paul. Moses was the great Law-giver to the nation of Israel, while Paul is the great dispenser of Grace to the church, the Body of christ." »Henry Grube
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"Theology, not morality, is the first business on the church's agenda of reform, and the church, not society, is the first target of divine criticism." »Michael Horton
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"If ever a man could have felt the church to be unnecessary, he was Jesus. Yet he did not stay away form the church of his day. It was his custom to go to the synagogue on the Sabbath, and he made many trips to the temple." »R. Brokhoff
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"God loves the world. That's plain to see as we read His Word. Today, God loves the world through us, His Children of Grace. christ is 'in' us and we are 'in' christ. Christ is loving people and reaching out to them through us. He is making His appeal through us. He is reconciling people to Himself through us" »Mark McGee
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"Paul's evangelistic mission was different from the Kingdom Apostles, but in many ways the same. The Kingdom Apostles preached Jesus the Messiah, ready to return to Israel and set up His Messianic Kingdom. From Israel, the Apostles, with christ on David's Throne, were to go into all the world and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to observe everything christ had commanded them. They would do that because all authority in heaven and on earth had been given to christ. As we all know, that did not happen. It will happen in the future, but it has not yet happened. What has happened is that christ revealed a Mystery through His Special Apostle Paul." »Mark McGee
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"Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and the state forever separate." »Ulysses S. Grant
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"Through His redemptive work we are 'justified from all things' (Acts 1338,39) and now rejoice in 'the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of His grace' (Eph. 17), a position in christ at God's right hand (Eph. 24-6), 'all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ' (Eph. 13) and 'the hope of the glory of God' (Rom. 52), to be fully realized when we are 'caught up together...to meet the Lord in the air' (1 Thess. 417). Then will be fulfilled the desire of God's loving heart 'That in the ages to come He might shew the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us through christ Jesus' (Eph. 27)." »Cornelius Stam
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"The church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the moon and I have more faith in the Shadow than in the church." »Ferdinand Magellan
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"The true God is the unknown God to the natural man and also the unknowable God without His revelation in christ. God is not only invisible to man's sight , but also to man's senses. In christ is found a God who is near, who hears, who cares, who loves, and who saves. 'For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ' (2 Cor. 46) 'All things are delievered unto me of my Father and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father neither knoweth any man the Father, save the son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him' (Matt. 1127)." »Eugene Reuweler
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"We were lost and dead in sin. We were by nature objects of God's wrath. But God Loved us That Love caused Him to do something about our situation. God is rich in mercy, so He made us alive with christ even when we were dead in transgressions. God acted on His Love for us and saved us by His Grace Grace is the result of the actions of His Love. The remarkable thing about His Grace is that He didn't ask us to do anything but believe Him. God didn't ask us to perform some great deed. He didn't demand obedience from us before He would save us. God made us alive with christ 'even when we were dead in transgressions and sins.' God is showing the universe 'the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in christ Jesus.' (Ephesians 27) God was Kind to us 'in' christ because He Loved us." »Mark McGee
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"Defeated enemies in battle have to confess the superiority of their captors, but this does not give them citizenship in that country. This is why as ambassadors for christ we beseech people to be reconciled to God by faith in christ now. If they confess Him as Lord with a heart of faith--now, while the doors of salvation are wide open, they will be saved (Rom. 109,10). Later they are forced to confess His Lordship to vindicate Christ's righteous judgment of them and the worthiness of their eternal doom. Confession does not bring the confessor salvation. It is too late, for the 'accepted time' for salvation has forever passed." »Vernon Schutz
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"As we study the Word of God rightly divided we are to understand that God has arranged His dealings with mankind into two programs. We have His prophesied purpose and His secret purpose. Prophecy has to do with the earth and Christ's reign upon it during the millennial kingdom, while the Mystery concerns our exaltation with christ in the heavenlies." »Paul Sadler
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"A hundred years ago, the electric telegraph made possible - indeed, inevitable - the united States of America. The communications satellite will make equally inevitable a united Nations of Earth; let us hope that the transition period will not be equally bloody." »Arthur C. Clarke, First on the Moon, 1970
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"Grace is not against good works It simply does not bless on the basis of good works. We receive blessing from God based solely on the merits of His Son--blessings freely given to us in christ and nowhere else. The completeness that is in christ mean deliverance from trying to 'be good' and 'do right' in order to be accepted by God." »Richard Jordan
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"Paul was to know and proclaim God's will, His purpose, in view of Israel's rejection of christ. Had god been taken by surprise in the crucifixion of christ Would He now be forced to resort to some makeshift arrangement No, for the crucifixion was all part of--indeed, the central part of, His secret, eternal plan, now revealed to Paul." »Cornelius Stam
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"When Paul went to the Jew first, it was not because it seemed that Israel might yet accept christ and His kingdom, but simply because God would leave Israel no excuse for rejecting Messiah. Paul confirmed Peter's message, and mightily contended with the Jews everywhere that 'Jesus is the christ.' And miracles accompanied this confirmation testimony--greater miracles, indeed, than Peter himself had wrought. But, unlike Peter, Paul never offered the kingdom to Israel. His ministry among them was not to turn the nation to christ, but to save any from among them who might believe, receiving salvation by grace, and to leave the rest without excuse. Thus God was concluding Israel in unbelief and, even at that early date, mightily using Paul to proclaim grace to the Gentiles." »Cornelius Stam
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"Along with such abundance of grace comes the gift of righteousness. Again grace and righteousness combine to allow believers to experience the enthroned life in Jesus christ. In God's dealings with man today, grace is king. Grace reigns through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus christ our Lord" »Rollin Wilson
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"As members of the Body of christ, each of us have been endowed with a special measure of grace to use in His service. Paul develops this theme in Romans where he states 'For as we have many members in one Body, and all members have not the same office So we, being many, are one Body in christ, and ever one members one of another. Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether...ministry, let us wait on our ministering or he that teacheth, on teaching Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity he that ruleth, with diligence he that showeth mercy, with cheerfulness." »Paul Sadler
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"A church without Youth is a church without a future. Moreover, Youth without a church is Youth without a future." »Pope Shenouda III, Pope & Patriach of Alexandria
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"My own mind is my own church." »Carl Lotus Becker
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"There is no salvation outside the church." »Saint Cyprian
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"He who does not have the church as his mother does not have God as his Father." »Saint Augustine
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