Kindle Notes & Highlights
by
Steve Simms
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March 4 - March 4, 2017
New Testament definition of ekklesia would be “an open, participatory, interactive assembly of equal people called out of self-focus and invited to meet together in the pursuit of God’s government”.
Benjamin Franklin said: “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”
The Salvation Army proceeds upon the assumption that ‘all the Lord’s people are prophets’ and are no sooner converted than inspired… The church shuts the pulpit against laymen …
Give a man a sermon and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to listen to God and to do what God tells Him to, and you feed him for a lifetime.
“The church is always trying to get other people to reform; it might not be a bad idea to reform itself.” – Mark Twain