If your Christianity depends upon a pastor's preaching, then you're a long way from being where you should be.

God doesn't need anything nevertheless He wants worshipers.

God's Kingdom isn't divided into areas of important people and areas of little people. In God's sight, everyone's needful.

We boast in the Lord but watch carefully that we never get caught depending on Him.

The Church can't be a religious theater where paid men perform for the religious amusement of the people who pay them.

The church has lost her testimony. She has no longer anything to say to the world. Her once robust shout of assurance has faded away to an apologetic whisper. She who one time went out to declare now goes out to inquire. Her dogmatic declaration has become a respectful suggestion, a word of religious advice, given with the understanding that it is after all only an opinion and not meant to sound bigoted. Pure Christianity, instead of being shaped by its culture, actually stands in sharp opposition to it.

In the Book of Acts faith was for each believer a beginning, not an end; it was a journey, not a bed in which to lie while waiting for the day of our Lord's triumph. Believing was not a once-done act; it was more than an act, it was an attitude of heart and mind which inspired and enabled the believer to take up his cross and follow the Lamb whithersoever He went.