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“Soon time will be no more, we will see our Lord face to face. We will experience the true ending, the timelessness of the Holy Trinity being worshipped. It is as if the Lord comes to you and says, 'Just a few more years, my child. Share my Gospel. It will all be over soon.' As you look out at the great need for humanity to embrace Christ, those words ring in your ears, and you see the sun setting; it will all soon be over. Are we spending our lives for eternity, and what really matters?”
― St. Thomas Church, An Ancient Worship Movement

“God who is a Trinity amongst Himself has community. He calls us into fellowship with not only that community but to a mystical communion with His Body, the Church.”
― St. Thomas Church, An Ancient Worship Movement

“The Apostle John said to the Church in his day that they should not be surprised if the world hated them. Our Lord Jesus said in the Gospel of Luke that all men would hate us. But our Lord also gives us comfort in these words: 'If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated Me first.”
― St. Thomas Church, An Ancient Worship Movement

“We are not commissioned to lead comfortable lives but to follow the example of our Lord. May each Lord’s Day gathering be a renewing not only of our baptismal vow but a renewing of our missionary call by the Son of God to be His ambassadors even to the ends of the earth.”
― St. Thomas Church, An Ancient Worship Movement

“The Gospels and Book of Acts chronicle for us the exciting work of the Apostles that Jesus trained and anointed for His service. We see in the Book of Acts the great multiplication of the Church, the order of Deacons established, Councils of leaders to administrate Church decisions. We see great signs and wonders accompanying the proclamation of this Gospel.”
― St. Thomas Church, An Ancient Worship Movement

“Demons hate ancient faith. With the continual formation of new sects and doctrines, the powers of darkness oppose the Apostolic Truth. Yet the Holy Church is triumphant as Justin Martyr said, “For we do continually beseech God by Jesus Christ to preserve us from the demons which are hostile to the worship of God, and whom we of old time served, in order that, after our conversion by Him to God, we may be blameless. For we call Him Helper and Redeemer, the power of whose Name even the demons do fear; and at this day, when they are exorcised in the Name of Jesus Christ, crucified under Pontius Pilate, governor of Judea, they are overcome.”
― St. Thomas Church, An Ancient Worship Movement

“As we near the second coming of our precious Lord Jesus Christ, this call back to worship of Himself is getting louder. The very heavenly worship (Isaiah 6, Revelation 5) is on-going and soon time will be no more and we will fully enter into that reality. The reason for our Church gathering to focus our eyes on Christ as the Lamb of God in the centre of the throne.”
― St. Thomas Church, An Ancient Worship Movement

“Jesus words to His Apostles still ring true today: 'I will build My church, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.' The Church has failed many times but God has not. He is still building His body the Church to be a faithful Bride for His coming.”
― St. Thomas Church, An Ancient Worship Movement

“At the fulness of time Christ appeared and with the choosing of the twelve Apostles the Church age began. It was the culmination of the plan of God for the ages and though this was God’s perfect testimony being displayed we see that humanity still was humanity in all its failings. The very Apostles (leaders) of the Church failed Christ in running while he was being arrested. The Apostle Peter denied Christ three times. During the ascension of Jesus to heaven some still doubted. When we go further we see James, Peter and other Apostles preferring Jewish converts in ways that were not in accord with the Gospel. Yet it was clear that God was at work and using failed weak vessels for His glory.”
― St. Thomas Church, An Ancient Worship Movement

“We are called as modern believers in Jesus Christ the very Son of God to carry on the work of the Apostles and Church in our day. Amongst growing apostasy from the faith (sodomy in the Church) and other deviancies, we must continue to struggle to 'enter through the narrow gate' through tribulations and sufferings. Part of this suffering is holding to the truth and practice of the faith amongst growing false teachings.”
― St. Thomas Church, An Ancient Worship Movement

“Satan is still a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour. One of his chief strategies is to individualize and separate believers apart from community and the greater body of Christ.”
― St. Thomas Church, An Ancient Worship Movement

“Some in Church history have felt the deep agony of the lostness of men around them and shared the heart of God the Father in sending His only Son at such a great cost. Hudson Taylor speaks of the burden of God that came upon him for souls: 'The feeling of bloodguiltiness became more and more intense. Simply because I refused to ask for them, the laborers did not come forward— did not go out to China— and every day tens of thousands were passing away into Christless graves! Perishing China so filled my heart and mind that there was no rest by day, and little sleep by night, till health broke down.”
― St. Thomas Church, An Ancient Worship Movement

“As we read through the entirety of the Old Testament we see this continual ebbing and flowing of faithfulness to God and times of apostasy. One example is in the times of the Judges where: “In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes.” Or during the times of Jeremiah the prophet there were very few left who did not compromise from priest to people." “It is during these dark times of the halting of prophetic words from God or faithfulness of His people that we are tempted to say that God has failed and His followers would never come to a place of fruitfulness again.”
― St. Thomas Church, An Ancient Worship Movement

“Since the inception of the Apostolic Church, missions have been at the heartbeat of each disciple. All the Apostles died martyr deaths in bringing the Gospel to new peoples (except St. John who they tried to martyr). There was no compromise to this call to be a living witness of the Good News to all nations as their Lord commanded them.”
― St. Thomas Church, An Ancient Worship Movement

“Dr. Jowett said, 'We can never heal the needs we do not feel. Tearless hearts can never be heralds of the passion. We must pity if we would redeem.' Feeling and understanding the plight of lost men is critical to our being a help to them. Have we already lost the sense of the grandeur of our salvation? Have our eyes dried up not being able to shed a tear of thankfulness to God for His saving us? We must weep for those to whom we will preach. The needs of the lost will move us deeply. Are we willing to lose our lives for the sake of others? We can pray this prayer to the Lord: 'Break my heart, Lord, with the things that break Yours.”
― St. Thomas Church, An Ancient Worship Movement

“History is repeating itself, how the Church began it could very well end. The Church began with the Book of Acts movement and will very likely end in such a way.”
― St. Thomas Church

“The Church is Jesus Christ’s. He is the Head of it. The focal point of the Church is worship and the ultimate meaning and purpose of life is the worship of the Triune God.”
― St. Thomas Church, An Ancient Worship Movement

“The Early Church was a missionary Church. Its very heartbeat was sharing this good news with others. But when the Church loses its vision for the mission field, it becomes inwardly focused. The very calling of Apostles (bishops) is an outward call to make disciples of Christ.”
― St. Thomas Church, An Ancient Worship Movement

“The early Church had an overwhelming burden to reach all mankind with the Gospel. Their mission was relentless. Everywhere they went, they shared the love of Jesus.”
― St. Thomas Church, An Ancient Worship Movement

“There were false teachers in the times of the Apostles who taught: 'Godliness as a means of gain.' Greed has been always associated with the spirit of false teachers, the warning to stay away from the 'teachings of Balaam' was given to the Church at Pergamum.”
― St. Thomas Church, An Ancient Worship Movement

“When we consider from the vantage point of 2000 years of Church history we see this principle still intact that God endeavours to continue to work with and through a broken humanity full of failings.”
― St. Thomas Church, An Ancient Worship Movement

“The people of God were always a worshipping people. God prescribed the first worship of Himself and it was built into mankind to have this desire to seek Him.”
― St. Thomas Church, An Ancient Worship Movement

“Heaven’s focal point, therefore, is God displaying the wonder of the Gospel afresh and vividly through his atonement and sacrifice on the Cross. We will marvel and worship from generation to generation in endless eternity, lauding the Holy Trinity for His endless love and lowly condensation for men.”
― St. Thomas Church, An Ancient Worship Movement