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Church is not an organization you join it is a family where you belong, a home where you are loved and a hospital where you find healing.

Nicky Gumbel

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Nicky Gumbel
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 28
Anglican Priest
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Inner and Outer London
Nicholas Glyn Paul Gumbel
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The cross is bigger than your mistakes, bigger than your regrets, bigger than the secrets you hold. The cross stands above it all.
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I think 75% of the population of Great Britain are probably still de-churched. It's the younger end, the 25%, the merging generation, who have no church background at all.
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Churches are not museums that display perfect people. They are hospitals where the wounded, hurt, injured and broken find healing.
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Difficulties come into our lives to develop us. Every storm is a school. Every trial is a teacher. Every experience is an education.
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I believe that sex is for marriage, and that's regardless of whether it's homosexual or hetero sexual.
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Stop looking for the perfect church. It does not exist. Even if it did exist, the moment we joined it, it would no longer be perfect!
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If the grass looks greener on the other side, it is probably astroturf.
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Prayer for the city is important. For every city in the world, the city should be prayed for. Particularly for London, it is a strategic city for the UK as well as the world, therefore the future of London is significant to the UK, and also the rest of the world.
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What unites the church is infinitely more important than what divides us.
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Until God opens the next door, praise Him in the hallway.
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Sometimes God teaches us how to solve our problems. Sometimes God teaches us how to face our problems
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The only label I would choose for myself is Christian, but if you pushed me and you say, 'What sort of Christian are you?' I'm an Anglican.
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Probably one of the strongest movements of the Holy Spirit is in the Roman Catholic Church, so there's not a huge theological difference between the official teaching of the Catholic Church and the Anglican Church.
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Knowledge is like underwear. It is useful to have it, but not necessary to show it off.
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Too often we try to use God to change our circumstance, when God is trying to use our circumstance to change us.
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I had a battle going on in my head: shall I just enjoy my life and then convert on my deathbed? But I felt I couldn't do that - it was now or never - so I took a step of faith and became a Christian.
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Life is too short to worry about stupid things. Pray. Trust God. Enjoy life. Don't let the little things get you down.
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The words of the tongue should have three gatekeepers: Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary?
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If God answers 'Yes', He is increasing your faith. If 'Wait', He is increasing your patience. If 'No', He has something better for you.
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Personally I think people's labels are terribly unhelpful because they enable you to dismiss things.
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