Quotes related to Christianity's fall from grace . . .

"Why do you yourselves transgress the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition?"
~ Jesus Christ ~

"What life have you if you have not life together?"
~ T.S. Eliot ~

"The clerical system of church management is exceedingly popular, but the whole thought is foreign to Scripture." ~ Watchman Nee ~

"God's program is directed toward, and is experienced in, community." ~ Stanley Grenz ~

"In the process of replacing the old religions, Christianity became a religion." ~ Alexander Schmemann ~

"Laypeople have been a theologial afterthought throughout the history of the church." ~ Paul Lakeland ~

"We are living in an age hopelessly below the New Testament pattern—content with a neat little religion." ~ Martyn Lloyd-Jones ~

"Viewed within the context of the triune God himself, the church is community." ~ Stanley Grenz ~

"The ultimate basis for our understanding of the church lies in its relationship to the nature of the triune God himself." ~ Stanley Grenz ~

"Christianity did not destroy paganism; it adopted it." ~ Will Durant ~

"Everything [in the early church] then was the free and spontaneous movement of the Holy Spirit..." ~ T. Austin-Sparks ~

"Custom without truth is error grown old."
~ Tertullian ~

"Son of man, [show] the house to the house, that they may be ashamed." ~ Ezekiel, the prophet ~

"Important ideas are first ridiculed, then attacked, and finally taken for granted." ~ Schopenhauer ~

"The clergy practice is a heresy that must be renounced."
~ Jon Zens ~

(quotes gleaned from House Church Resource website)