Church Priorities Quotes

It must not be supposed that the Church so concentrates her energies on caring for souls as to overlook things which pertain to mortal and earthly life.

Churches all over the country have decided they love their traditions more than their children.

A servant church must have as its priority solidarity with the poor.

What people pray for will tell you more than anything else whether they are locked into the vision and priorities of the church.

If the pursuit of God's glory is not ordered above the pursuit of man's good in the affections of the heart and the priorities of the Church, man will not be well served, and God will not be duly honored. I am not pleading for a diminishing of missions but for a magnifying of God. When the flame of worship burns with the heat of God's true worth, the light of missions will shine to the darkest peoples on earth. And I long for that day to come!

When a church is spending more of its budget on media than shepherding, something is out of whack. We have gotten things twisted around.

One of the greatest priorities of the church today is to mobilize the laity to do the work of evangelism.

If it came to saving the life of one priest or sacrificing the life of an entire congregation, the church would save the life of the priest. Which is backwards, of course.

What the church is really concerned about is what endures.