The church is a hospital for sinners, not a courtroom for saints.
The church is not made up of the righteous; it is made up of sinners who have been given the gift of righteousness.
The church is a community where the broken are welcomed, the hurting are healed, and the sinful find grace.
The church is not a building, but a body – the body of Christ on earth.
The first duty of the church is to make the world honest by making it realize that it is not so.