1 Peter 2:4-6
Matthew 21:3-6
1 Corinthians 3:1-11
Matthew 16:13-18
Hebrews 4:14-16
John 17:6-19
Richard C. Halverson, former chaplain of the U.S. Senate:
“In the beginning the church was a fellowship of men and women centered on the living Christ. Then the church moved to Greece, where it became a philosophy. Then it moved to Rome, where it became on institution. Next, it moved to Europe, where it became a culture. And, finally, it moved to America, where it became an enterprise.”
Francis Schaeffer
“Here is the great evangelical disaster – the failure of the evangelical world to stand for truth as truth. There is only one word for this – namely accommodation; the evangelical church has accommodated to the world spirit of the age.”
Lewis Sperry Chafer (founder of Dallas Theological Seminary)
“Much of our spiritual activity is nothing more than a cheap anesthetic to deaden the pain of an empty life.”