3 Quotes About Ecclesiology

What is church? Why do we go to church? These are two of the most common questions that people ask about the church. Yet, most people would probably struggle to answer these questions. In fact, it is a common misconception that all Christians go to church every week. In reality, many Christians don’t go once a week and many others only go every now and then Read more

With this in mind, we’ve collected some of the best ecclesiology quotes to help you discover what your beliefs really mean and how they apply to your life and your faith.

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Faith is the door to the full inner life of the Church, a life which includes not only access to an authoritative teaching but above all to a deep personal experience which is at once unique and yet shared by the whole Body of Christ, in the Spirit of Christ. Thomas Merton
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I sometimes find, especially among my peers, that authenticity is not a…means of growing in holiness, but a convenient cover for endless introspection, doubt, uncertainty, anger, and worldliness. So that if other Christians seem pure, assured, and happy we despise them for being inauthentic. Granted, the church shouldn’t be happy-clappy naive about life’s struggles. Plenty of psalms show us godly ways to be real with our negative emotions. But the church should not apologize for preaching a confident Christ and exhorting us to trust Him in all things. Church is not meant to foster an existential crisis of faith every week . Kevin DeYoung