Church

The church has never been a building. Christ did not die for property. …The church—God's family—is going to go on forever and ever and ever and ever and ever. If God has called you to serve in a local church ... don't you ever step down to become the president of the United States or anything else for that matter, because nothing matters more ... [than] the privilege of guiding and guarding and shaping and sharing and encouraging and helping the flock of God. …We are to love the people of the world no matter what they believe; we are to not love the value system of the world. And the problem today is a lot of Christians are getting that reversed. They love the value system and hate the people. God has never met a person He didn't love. ~~ Saddleback Church senior pastor Rick Warren, addressing the hundreds gathered earlier this week to mark the formation of the Anglican Church in North America, a new conservative network of congregations that broke from the increasingly liberal Episcopal Church [AP, 6/23/09]