Quotables
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"Sheep reproduce sheep, not the shepherds. Laity evangelize and multiply. Shepherds manage and guide the..." by Charles Moore, Thomas Nelson VP
"The l990's will likely be the decade in which we will hear a louder voice..." by George Gallup Jr
"What was the position of the layman in the Catholic church? He kneels before the..." by Yves Congar
"...the characteristic of the intermediate time [Between the cross and the Second Coming of Christ]..." by Yves Congar
"Pascal's three orders will be made one under the sway of him who, himself king,..." by Yves Congar
"Is lay ministry limited to what we do in church?... our own Catechism (BCP, p.855)..." by Diane Bringgold Brown
"Lay persons in the late period of the Christendom paradigm continued to be seen as..." by Loren Mead
"Changes of paradigm are, by definition, matters of perception, feeling, world view, consciousness; they are..." by Loren Mead
"Those who follow Jesus Christ continue his work of spreading the kingdom ways of justice,..." by Paul Minus
"Chrysostom comments on the baptism of the christian believer; "So also art thou thyself made..." by Peck and Hoffman
"We must attack the enemy's line of communication. What we want is not more little..." by C.S. Lewis
"When I became a professor, I discovered very quickly that the meaning of my work..." by Jacques Ellul
"In America, the church is owned by the clergy. That is what clericalism means.... Clericalism,..." by Loren Mead
"...the Second Vatican Council....attracted priests and religious who saw their ministry as arousing the laity..."
"It seems to me that clergy assume that the laity know almost nothing about spiritual..." by Pete Hammond
"The priests surveyed find their chief source of inspiration to be the faith and spirituality..."
"Half the harm done in the world is due to people who want to feel..." by T.S. Eliot
"Our society needs more `meaning makers'...people who make sense of life...people who make sense of..." by Don Posterski
"Heaven knows there was little, if any, effort to teach us how to preach. You..." by Andrew Greeley
"In religion and politics, we seem to have less love for those who believe half..." by Charles Colson
"Derived from two Greek words, laos (people) and ergon (work), LITURGY, properly understood, is the..." by Anne Rowthorn
"There is an arrogance among Christians that equates God's activity with service to the institutional..." by Anne Rowthorn
"Christians are defined by their relationship to God. - helped by their connections with each other. -..." by Pete Hammond
"The l990's could be a period of remarkable renewal in the church in America if....churches..." by George Gallup Jr.
"Laymen (sic) are not anointed in confirmation to the end that they must merely save..." by John Ireland, archbishop of St. Paul, MN
"Ever since Constantine (280-337) and Augustine (354-430), Christianity has had the privilege, risk or blight..." by Pete Hammond
"As clergy administer grace to struggling believers in their gatherings through the word and sacraments,..." by Pete Hammond
"In response to the question, “What is the biggest challenge for Christian ministers in the..." by J. I. Packer
"I am convinced that faith in the workplace is a critical issue of our day..." by Bob Cooley, president of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
"...the original human vocation from God had to do with caring for God’s creation and..." by Stanley J. Menking
"The church... does not know the answers to the world’s problems, and... it does not..." by Celia Allison Hahn
"Is lay ministry limited to what we do in church?... our own Catechism (BCP, p.855)..." by Diane Bringgold Brown
"The world wide phenomenon of the emerging role of the laity has also awakened a..." by Wm. Mulcahey
"Chua Wee Hian quoting Jacque Ellul said, ‘The only place theological truth reaches the world..." by Chua Wee Hian
"The eyes of faith behold a wonderful scene: That of a countless number of lay..." by Pope John Paul II
"Another sign of the early marginalizing of daily life comes from church historian who said..." by Eusibius
"...We actually take up all the energies of lay people in our churches..... Somehow we..." by Archbishop of Canterbury William Carey
"Clement of Rome appears to be the first christian writer to use the term ‘layman’...." by Father Gerald Foley
"The immobilization of 90% of Gods’ people, the laity, is both unbiblical and discriminating, while..." by Pete Hammond
"What was the position of the layman in the Catholic church? He kneels before the..." by Yves Congar
"...the lay position is presented as a concession, and its general tendency is to deny..." by Yves Congar
"It is the laity who are baptized primarily to share Christ’s ministry in the world,..." by William Willimon
"The pagan Celcius admitted in the second century that it was the ‘wool workers, cobblers,..." by Paul Stevens
"The good news is that Christian laity are already located in strategic positions to carry..." by Bill Diehl
"All my best friends are ministers...and some of them are ordained." by Nelvin Vos
"Religion is too serious a business to be left to the clergy." by James Reston
"Religion can survive for centuries, as a clergyman’s or a priest’s religion though it survives..." by Elton Trueblood
"When this ordering of ministry results in a class or caste system, where it divides..." by Dr. Tom Gillespie, President of Princeton Seminary
"One author, calling for a ‘new direction’ in the church’s approach to laity, suggests: ‘It..." by Tom Gillespie
"Laypersons do not belong to the church, nor do they have role in the church...." by Leonard Doohan
"The laity are not a bridge between church and the world; laity are the church." by Leonard Doohan
"In this theology, we are dealing with an area where the church ministers through influence,..." by Leonard Doohan
"Laity are forced to be adaptible and mobile in every aspect of life except in..." by Leonard Doohan
"As long as the laity believe they go to church whereas the clergy are the..." by Anne Rowthorn
"How can the church expect to be an agent for the humanization of the world..." by Anne Rowthorn
"...no one seemed to take seriously that the ordinary Christian person was being called on..." by Loren Mead
"By our very baptism and confirmation every single member of the church is called to..." by Bishop Raymond Lucker
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