Sermon Illustrations

Tag: church

  • Stop wallowing in the shallows

    Tiffany and my boys went to feed the giant koi carp fish in the large pond at the bottom of the garden. Suddenly Tiffany’s voice interrupted my thoughts, ‘Simon, come quick, there’s a fish in trouble!’ I got up and rushed to the end of the garden and there, stranded in the mud, in a…

  • Not going to a sports game

    A pastor wrote, Football in the fall. Basketball in the winter. Baseball in the spring and summer. This pastor has been an avid sports fan all his life. But I’ve had it! I quit this sports business once and for all. You can’t get me near one of those places again. Want to know why……

  • Effective discipleship

    Effective discipleship

    Effective discipleship builds the church, not the other way round. We need to understand the church as the effect of discipleship and not the cause. Mike BreenClick to TweetFrom the book “Building A Discipling Culture” Available on amazon.co.uk*Available on amazon.com*

  • Life

    Life

    One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always. AW TozerClick to Tweet

  • Missionless and or Churchless?

    Missionless and or Churchless?

     An unfortunate and abnormal historic development which has produced autonomous, missionless churches on the one hand and autonomous churchless missionary societies on the other hand. George W PetersClick to Tweet

  • Dead Church

    A young, ambitious pastor was called to serve in a certain church. He was warned by his predecessor that this congregation was “dead”.. It was not even worth trying to save it. But this pastor accepted the call because he believed with God’s guidance he could bring life to that church. He was an optimist…

  • Going not sitting

    The church is a “go” church not a “sit” church Reinhard BonnkeClick to Tweet

  • Satan stays active, keeping pace

    Satan stays active, keeping pace wth God, cunning aiming to spoil God’s work and to thwart His plans to do good for his people and bring praise to his name. So teh church must be at war with Satan, since Satan is always at war with it – with us who believe J.I.PackerClick to TweetFrom…

  • The gathered church is meant

    The gathered church is meant to be a place where the presence of the Holy Spirit is evident, you can’t miss Him if He is manifest! Terry Virgo – UK Apostle (1940 – )Click to Tweet Available on amazon.co.uk*Available on amazon.com*

  • If you want to know

    If you want to know where your church is going, ask them these 4 questions What’s the testimony that you most want to see repeated? What’s the prophecy you most want to see fulfilled? What do you love? What are you afraid of? Bill JohnsonClick to Tweet