If you find a perfect church, don't join it; you'll ruin it

We've been looking at building on to the church and talking about it for the last two or two-and-a-half years, ... We're working to reach out into the community.

God wants to save us in a people. He does not want to save us in isolation. And so today's church more than ever is accentuating the idea of being a people. The church therefore experiences conflicts, because it does not want a mass; it wants a people. A mass is a heap of persons, the drowsier the better, the more compliant the better. The church rejects communism's slander that it is the opium of the people. It has no intention of being the people's opium. Those that create drowsy masses are others. The church wants to rouse men and women to the true meaning of being a people. What is a people? A people is a community of persons where all cooperate for the common good.

The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state. It must be the guide and the critic of the state, and never its tool.

The mandate for the church is to bridge the divide that exists, because without that, it is going to be very difficult for the church to accomplish what needs to be accomplished.

The chronic grumbler is a church social compared to the feller that agrees with everything you say