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Like all soul singers, I grew up singing in church but sometimes I would leave early and sit in the car listening to gospel band, The Blind Boys of Alabama. Hearing their lead singer Clarence made me connect the idea of church and show business and see how I could make a career singing music that stirred the soul  (Early Church Quotes) When the early Church recited the Apostles Creed, it was simultaneously their greatest act of rebellion, and their greatest act of submission.  (Early Church Quotes) The loss of psalmody in the church is one of the early indicators of the loss of faith  (Early Church Quotes) Today, on our own turf, we face pagan ignorance about God every bit as deep as that which the early church faced in the Roman Empire.  (Early Church Quotes) Much of today’s church relies more on a book the early church didn’t have, than the Holy Spirit they did.  (Early Church Quotes) There is not much we can say with absolute confidence about the early church, but we can be fairly sure that the first Christians would not have dreamed of making a likeness of Jesus.  (Early Church Quotes) Women are the first witnesses to the resurrection and pillars of the early church  (Early Church Quotes) I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe.  (Early Church Quotes) In the early days of the Mormon Church, stewardship toward the land was a priority. It was a matter of survival in the desert.  (Early Church Quotes) Each of our children during their high school years went to ‘early morning seminary’ - scripture study classes that met in the home of a church member every school day morning from 6:30 until 7:15.  (Early Church Quotes) In the early 1800s, religion was often used as a way to keep slavery in place. Slaves were forced to attend the church of their owners, listen to selective dogma that kept them obedient and subservient.  (Early Church Quotes) With the early Christians you couldn’t have God as your father unless you have the church as your mother. This isn’t accepting the church as a perfect thing  (Early Church Quotes) St. Paul was making it impossible to be Jewish and Christian at the same time. What is very striking about those early churches and communities is that you could be both. Under Paul, though, you absolutely couldn’t  (Early Church Quotes) I want people to help me reanchor the church to undeniable, mind-boggling, culture-shifting demonstration of compassion and generosity. Because, generosity was the hallmark of the early church  (Early Church Quotes) I was raised in a working class family of Baptist faith, and I went to college on a church scholarship where early teachings were reinforced. Abortion was wrong, I was taught  (Early Church Quotes) The early Church was married to poverty, prisons and persecutions. Today, the church is married to prosperity, personality, and popularity  (Early Church Quotes) It was a real surprise to me to come across the evidence that Christianity might once have been a danced religion. Certainly, some of the early church leaders thought this was great and spoke of what seems to have been circle dancing, perhaps around an altar  (Early Church Quotes) The early Church had nothing but the Old Testament. The New Testament lies hidden in the Old; the Old Testament lies open in the New  (Early Church Quotes) There has always been a certain proportion of people who leave the Church on issues of authority and sex. That hasn’t changed since we started doing research on it back in the early 1960s  (Early Church Quotes) I had always owned them to be the Word of God... The careful reading of the Acts afforded me a practical picture of the early church; which made me feel deeply the contrast with its actual present state; though still, as ever beloved by God  (Early Church Quotes) I was in a church choir early on and that really helped me musically in terms of chops, learning how to sing harmonies  (Early Church Quotes) In my twenties, I was determined to change the world. In my thirties, I tried to transform the church. In my early forties, I discovered I was the problem  (Early Church Quotes) Saints of the early church reaped great harvests in the field of prayer and found the mercy seat to be a mine of untold treasures  (Early Church Quotes) Today, on our own turf, we face pagan ignorance about God every bit as deep as that which the early church faced in the Roman Empire  (Early Church Quotes) We sometimes idealize the early church and want our churches to go back to the simple, old ways. We need to carefully read the history. Harmony takes work  (Early Church Quotes) If the church of today does not recapture the sacrificial spirit of the early church, it will lose its authentic ring, forfeit the loyalty of millions, and be dismissed as an irrelevant social club with no meaning for the twentieth century  (Early Church Quotes) Never was the victory of patience more complete than in the early church. The anvil broke the hammer by bearing all the blows that the hammer could place upon it. The patience of the saints was stronger than the cruelty of tyrants  (Early Church Quotes) Certain things happened in the early church. Women who had never had any freedom suddenly have the ability to stand up and speak and be treated as equals within the life of the church  (Early Church Quotes)