Timothy Keller Quotes about Church

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If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God's poetic justice.

If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God's poetic justice.

Timothy Keller

Justice, Church, Doe

The church should be a place where people can be free to say that they are sinners.

Timothy Keller

People, Church, Should

In the church we have to deliberately let ourselves be transparent and accountable to others. We're a family.

Timothy Keller

Church, Transparent

The early church was strikingly different from the culture around it in this way - the pagan society was stingy with its money and promiscuous with its body. A pagan gave nobody their money and practically gave everybody their body. And the Christians came along and gave practically nobody their body and they gave practically everybody their money.

Timothy Keller

Christian, Church, Different

The ministry of mercy, then, is the best advertising a church can have. It convinces a community that this church provides people with actions for their problems, not only talk. It shows the community that this church is compassionate.

Timothy Keller

People, Community, Church

Timothy Keller (2017). “Ministries of Mercy: Learning To Care Like Jesus”, p.185, SPCK

The church is not a museum for pristine saints, but a hospital ward for broken sinners.

Timothy Keller

Museums, Broken, Church

All Christians have opportunities to serve those who might never come to church or listen to a sermon.

Timothy Keller

Christian, Opportunity, Church

The Bible judges the church; the church does not judge the Bible. The Bible is the foundation for and the creator of the church; the church is not the foundation for or creator of the Bible. The church and its hierarchy must be evaluated by the believer with the biblical gospel as the touchstone or plumb line for judging all truth claims.

Timothy Keller

Biblical, Judging, Church

If you and your church were to disappear off the face of the earth tomorrow, would anyone in the community around you notice you were gone? And if the community did even notice would they say 'we are really glad they are gone', or 'we are really going to miss them'?

Timothy Keller

Community, Missing, Church