“ I hope the day will never come when the church abandons the “class meeting” and the prayer service . . .The old-fashioned “testimony” meeting should be revived, for through this medium we can share wi… Billy Graham
“ It could be said that going to church will not make one a Christian. But . . . refusing to fellowship with believers will not make you one either. Billy Graham
“ The church is a storehouse of spiritual food whereby the inner man is fed, nourished, and developed into maturity. If it fails, it is not fulfilling its purpose as a church. Billy Graham
“ The church has lost its ability to discipline members who live openly in sin. Consequently, we have lost our witness in the community. Billy Graham
“ Statistics indicate that the church is rapidly losing in the population explosion. There are fewer Christians per capita every day. Billy Graham
“ There are many who sit in some churches week after week, year after year, without hearing the whole Gospel and knowing what it is to be born again. They hear a gospel which is incomplete, and conseque… Billy Graham
“ What right does any church have even attempting to approve of lifestyles or certain acts for which God prescribed the death penalty in the Old Testament? Billy Graham
“ Unless the church quickly recovers the authoritative biblical message, we may witness the spectacle of millions of Christians going outside the institutional church to find spiritual food. Billy Graham
“ There will come a time when people hungering for the truth will seek it where it is supposedly disseminated, such as books and churches, but they will not hear the Word of the Lord. Instead of receivi… Billy Graham
“ Thousands of people have entered churches without discovering a vital experience with Jesus Christ. The substitutes have been handed them in the guise of religious rituals, good works, community effor… Billy Graham
“ The Bible nowhere teaches that the church will ultimately convert the whole world to Jesus Christ. There has never been a generation in history, nor will there ever be generation, in which the majorit… Billy Graham
“ Before three thousand people were brought into the church on the day of Pentecost, the disciples had spent fifty days in prayer, fasting, and spiritual travail. Billy Graham
“ We have been trying to solve every ill of society as though society were made up of regenerate men to whom we had an obligationto speak with Christian advice. Billy Graham
“ America and Western Europe are on a moneymaking, pleasure-mad spree unparalleled in the history of the world. God is generally ignored or ridiculed. Church members in many cases are only halfhearted C… Billy Graham
“ The church should be setting the pace. The church should be taking its proper place of leadership in the nation . . .God help the church to wake up! Billy Graham
“ God did not ordain that the church should drift aimlessly in the seas of uncertainty without compass, captain, or crew. Billy Graham
“ Preaching the whole council of God involves man’s environment and physical being as well as his soul. There is no doubt that the church is in danger of getting off the main track and getting lost. Billy Graham
“ The church in America has been deeply infiltrated by the “world,” and in the process it is beginning to copy and resemble the world in many of its activities. Billy Graham
