Israel Houghton Quotes

The real advantage for me is that I have the opportunity to lead worship every Sunday.

It wasn't until my second year that I got to actually work with Church.

So many people grew up in the church, and you can have an awesome upbringing, but I made a personal conviction; I made a personal decision when I was very young. I enjoy going to church without my parents. On Sunday mornings, I want to go. Bible studies on Wednesdays... I have a relationship - not just through my parents.

Not everyone can lead worship.

I grew up in the church, and I always kind of knew Bible stories and knew the Sunday school answers, but when I was a freshman in high school I joined youth group, and that's when I started to see radical love; that's when I started to see what Christian community is supposed to look like and what fellowship is supposed to look like.

When I was growing up, I'd be in the choir. My mum was the organist in the church, so I'd sing in the church.

As a worship leader, I feel this sort of responsibility to help add to the soundtrack of people's day.

I sang in the choir growing up and more recently served on the worship team at my church in California.

Your personal time with God is huge, your quiet time, your study, prayer, but being around other Christian followers... and the church just feeds you. You come away feeling rejuvenated, you get a great message.

I think it's funny how people get confused when they think about church music, because a lot of times there is a soloist who stands out, but my church wasn't like that at all.

Sunday morning church service is not an enormous priority; spending time with other believers is.

I think that together the church has learned a lot, and as we know from our own oversight board, the involvement of our wonderful lay leaders has been a real grace.

The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.

In the Church, and in the journey of faith, women have had and still have a special role in opening doors to the Lord.

Well, to take me from where I was, and the life I was leading, to the life I lead now with the church and with the Lord and with Jesus Christ, it's a total, total turn-around.

I have to have a daily, vibrant relationship with Jesus in order to survive that process toward healing.

I didn't have a fireworks moment for my salvation. I had a falling in love with Jesus in Sunday school when I was a very young child.

From the time God saved me at 21 years old, I've always been fascinated by the parables of Jesus.

I was baptized as an infant. I was confirmed as an adolescent; I was active in my church's youth group and in my university student group. I was married before the church's altar; trained at the church's seminaries, ordained deacon and priest at age 24.

I loved going to church. I enjoyed being a part of the choir and just doing things in and around the church. But as a young girl, I certainly enjoyed watching and listening to my dad.

One of the things my mom used to do - I don't know why she chose me, but she chose me out of her six children to take to the African-American church that was in the town that we lived in Springfield, Missouri. And we would go to the church, and we would sit in the back row, and we would listen to all of the spirituals in the hymns.

For individuals to become fully active in the Church, they generally must experience a spiritual conversion and a social integration.

I grew up singing in church as a little boy.

I would really like to hear somebody who is really articulate about the elements of their faith conversion. I'm not.

How wonderful to know that Christianity is more than a padded pew or a dim cathedral, but that it is a real, living, daily experience which goes on from grace to grace.