- While she has false sons in her pale, she ever will prevail. The Church is the enduring institution that will never be destroyed though attacked and ridiculed.
- We have a crisis in our society. The Church has lost its place as society’s spokesperson. She is no longer a royal polis whose voice is treasured.
- The ultimate weakness of the church in societal terms stems from the diminished role given to Her in the home and in the public places.
- As Calvin writes in his commentary on Galatians 4:26, “This designation, “the mother of us all,” reflects the highest credit and the highest honor on the Church. I am certain that this perspective is not well received even in conservative Reformed circles.
- There is a distinct Catholic-phobia among Protestants who think that treating the Church and her worship with honor entails a kind of idolatry. So Protestants in all their independence choose to submit to no one, but their own authority.
- The One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic church is treated as if it began its development in the Billy Graham era.
- The WCF, Chapter XXV states clearly that the Church is “….the house and family of God, out of which there is no ordinary possibility of salvation.” It is central to the Reformed confession to affirm such verity.
- R.B. Kuiper’s “Glorious Body of Christ” stands as one of the greatest works on the church ever published: https://www.amazon.com/Glorious-Body-Christ-R-Kuiper/dp/0851513689 …
- When unbelievers use the church as a scapegoat for their unbelief they should immediately recognize that Christ became the scapegoat for our sins. There is no excuse for unbelief.
- C.S. Lewis observed: “The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ, to make them little Christs. If they are not doing that, all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible itself, are simply a waste of time. God became Man for no other purpose.”
10 Quick Thoughts on the Church
