The early Church was married to poverty, prisons and persecutions. Today, the church is married to prosperity, personality, and popularity.
In revival, God is not concerned about filling empty churches, He is concerned about filling empty hearts.
The less power a church has, the more entertainment it has.
Someone asked me, 'Do you pray for the dead?' I said, 'No, I preach to them! I think every pew in every church is death row. Think about that! They're dead! They sing about God; they talk about God, but they're dead! They have no living relationship (with God).
Christians don't tell lies, they just go to church and sing them. How many times have you stood and sang, “Take my life and let it be” when you haven't given Him one ounce?
I'd rather have ten people that want God than 10,000 people who want to play church.
The Church right now has more fashion than passion, is more pathetic than prophetic, is more superficial than supernatural.
The Church used to be a lifeboat rescuing the perishing. Now she is a cruise ship recruiting the promising.
All you have to do is get in a closer walk with God and you'll find your enemies are in your own church.
The world does not believe the Bible and the church does not obey it.
When there's something in the Bible that churches don't like, they call it 'legalism.'
Can any deny that in the modern church setup the main cause of anxiety is money? Yet that which tries the modern churches the most, troubled the New Testament Church the least. Our emphasis is on paying; theirs was on praying. When we have paid, the place is taken; when they had prayed, the place was shaken!
In the New Testament church it says they were all amazed - And now in our churches everybody wants to be amused.
The world has lost the power to blush over its vice; the Church has lost her power to weep over it.
Today's church wants to be raptured from responsibility.
The last words of Jesus to the church (in Revelation) were ‘Repent!’
I believe every church is either supernatural or superficial. I don't believe there's any middle ground.
Maybe you are the key to revival in your church.
The best title of the [professing] church of God today, in my judgment, is 'Unbelieving Believers.'
The true church lives and moves and has its being in prayer.
The church as we know it today seems a million miles from the New Testament church. That may be a great generalization, but I will stand on it. There is a gulf between our average Christianity and the church of New Testament that makes the Grand Canyon look like a cavity in someone's tooth.
Church unity comes from corporate humility.
This much is sure in all churches, forgetting party labels; the smallest meeting numerically is the prayer-meeting. If weak in prayer we are weak everywhere.
I wish, in America, (that) we were as concerned about separation from church and sin as we are about separation between church and state. Church and sin-- it's a monstrous problem.
But have we Holy Ghost power — power that restricts the devil's power, pulls down strongholds, and obtains promises? Daring delinquents will be damned if they are not delivered from the devil's dominion. What has hell to fear other than a God-anointed, prayer-powered church?
