Terry L. Johnson > Quotes

“The proposed sixth sola is this: sola ecclesia, the church alone, meaning salvation may be found in the church alone. 3”
― Terry L. Johnson, Who Needs the Church?: Why We Need the Church

“the church has always been a mixed multitude of wheat and tares which grow up together and cannot be separated until the last day (Matt. 13:36”
― Terry L. Johnson, Who Needs the Church?: Why We Need the Church

“How we worship determines what we believe,
and, what we believe determines how we worship.”
― Terry L. Johnson, Worshipping with Calvin: Recovering the Historic Ministry & Worship of Reformed Protestantism

“It’s Sunday morning. My wake-up routine has been completed. What am I now to do? Here is my answer. Do what the Scriptures require and what Christians have done for 2,000 years. Go to the public assembly, gathered under the discipline of Christ’s appointed officers to be ministered to by the word read, preached, sung, prayed, and displayed in the sacraments.”
― Terry L. Johnson, Who Needs the Church?: Why We Need the Church

“The church,’ says Calvin in his commentary on Ephesians 4:11-13, ‘is the common mother of all the godly, which bears, nourishes, and governs in the Lord both kings and commoners; and this is done by the ministry.’ 6 Calvin endorsed another of Cyprian’s sayings, ‘that he who would have God as his father must have the church as his mother.”
― Terry L. Johnson, Who Needs the Church?: Why We Need the Church

“D. G. Hart, in his book Recovering Mother Kirk, rightly urges Presbyterians ‘to abandon the notion of the church as personal trainer’ and to recover ‘Calvin’s idea of the church as mother.’ 9”
― Terry L. Johnson, Who Needs the Church?: Why We Need the Church