As a church member, I am not merely to like my church or serve my church well. I am to fall deeply in love with my church. Christ is the bridegroom, and the church is the bride. My commitment is to love that bride with an unwavering and unconditional love.

Thom Rainer, I Am a Church Member (Nashville: B&H Publishing Group, 2013), 62.

When the preferences of the church members are greater than their passion for the Gospel, the church is dying.

Thom Rainer

HT: Challies.com