If every member could express why we exist as a church, there would be a new intensity about all we do.

We cannot define our mission in terms of deeds alone because any deed can be done with an attitude that does not glorify God.

A church's priorities should be based on the relationships each Christian should develop with God, fellow believers, and unbelievers.

If any good discovery is made in ministry we should consider how to multiply its effects in other churches.

God is stirring all over the world in governments and churches to do a new thing in our generation.

Bethlehem is most essentially a vision of God.

We are ruins being rebuilt by the grace of God. And we are here that the rest of men may seek the Lord.

God is worshiped and honored and savored both by fainting for him and by feasting on him.

The mark of living worthily of the gospel is a unified, fearless striving for the faith of the gospel.

It's the absence of the centrality of the biblical God in all of life that is leading to the collapse of our civilization.

It is your sacred duty and joy to praise God continually with your lips.

What does building a new worship building have to do with real worship?

Bethlehem exists to reassert God’s rightful place in all of life.

A truth stripped of God is not a whole truth and will not guide the church well.

We exist to spread a passion for the supremacy of God in all things for the joy of all peoples.

Jesus Christ has released the merciful power of God by his sin-bearing death; and the Holy Spirit is applying it to our church.

Faith works through love. It becomes active and visible in the form of love that people can see.

Believing that the Bible is the Word of God is a gigantic event in the soul. Therefore God does not leave it merely to man.

All things are by his grace because all things are for his glory. The all-sufficient, inexhaustible Giver gets the glory.

When we give ourselves to the work of personal evangelism and world missions, God pours more life into our souls.

All Christian relationships have this as their goal: to help each other stay satisfied in God.

Our mission is to spread a passion for the supremacy of God in everything, including choosing where we live.

The abiding foundation of our corporate worship is God-centeredness.

The fact that Jesus was born to a poor couple in a cow stall tells us something about the way God meant to reach the world.

Believing in the supremacy of God leads us to believe in the existence of absolute truth.

Everyone we lead to Christ is a fulfillment of the promise, "I am God Almighty; be fruitful and multiply."

Wisdom is the use of knowledge to reach worthy goals, such as winning outsiders to Christ.

Until the wrath of God figures as largely in our worldview as it did for Paul, we will not have the passion for evangelism that he had.

The sovereignty of God over the wills of men doesn't make evangelism unnecessary; it makes it hopeful.

Our joy in God is both our worship and our evangelism.

John Piper says missions is too intertwined with God's glory to be peripheral.