Quotes

The following is a few quotes from a book I am currently reading, The Jesus Proposal: A Theological Framework for Maintaining the Unity of the Body of Christ by Rubel Shelly & John O. York.

True Christianity is a transcendent commitment. It cannot by achieved through our own desire to live right, to be good people, or to share what we have with others. It is not going to church or being baptized. Membership in a church organization or a religious denomination is not enough. The personal relationship with Christ is the only core around which religious life can exist. Former President Jimmy Carter

The Church of Christ is not an institution, it is a new life with Christ and in Christ guided by the Holy Spirit. Sergei Bulgakov

The Church is nothing but a section of humanity in which Christ has really taken form. Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Biblically the church is an organism not a organization- a movement, not a monument. It is not a part of the community, it is a whole new community. It is not an orderly gathering; it is a new order with new values. Charles W. Colson