I like this:
"How could a loving God do that? I always ask, how could a just God with 700,000 "I don't cares" going up to Him a second, and not go, "You want to see chaos, You think Virginia tech was chaos? There you go..." Why Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus? Because without Jesus, everything falls apart.
... The church is not a room with four walls and a ceiling. That is a building where the church gathers. See this thing of the church is so unique. Francis says, "the church is a group of people who have been bought out of the dominion of darkness and have been redeemed and have had their sins forgiven and have been placed now uniquely in the kingdom of light, this kingdom of the son He loves, they've been place inside of this body in which the head is Jesus Christ." I've been placed in a unique place. This group of people here which is amongst you there are some that are the church and there are some that aren't. See I don't want anyone to be lied to to think that just because you come to a building once a week on Sundays, that you are the church. The church is not a building it is a group of people that understand that they have been redeemed bought out of the dominion of darkness, out the slave market of sin, and have been placed in this unique new body called the church of which Jesus Christ is not only the head of the dominion of darkness but is also the head of the Church. You were created in the very image of God. Then when you get saved you get recreated more specifically in the image of Jesus Christ.
... The church is here for its head, Jesus Christ. We are here today not to make you happy, we are here today to let you know that you need a right relationship with God. You need to be redeemed, bought of the slave market of sin, you need your sins forgiven. You need to be placed in this Kingdom of Light. Why? Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, JESUS!"
-Todd Nighswonger - Cornerstone Church in Simi Valley, Califonia. What's So Great About Jesus? (part 2)
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