“Where do you start in your dreaming — the church or the world outside the church? That determines everything” (Roberts, Bob. 2008. The multiplying church: the new math for starting new churches. Grand Rapids, Mich: Zondervan. 72).
“Local churches with the the mandate of the Great Commission have instead become the epitome of religious institutional consumerism” (Ibid., 125).
“I believe that the final Jesus movement (if it happens in the next two hundred years) will be seeded by the Muslims who will then take the gospel to the ends of the earth” (Ibid., 133).
“The Great Commission will one day become the Great Completion” (Ibid., 133, though referenced to Dick Bashta)
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Troy // July 25, 2008 at 4:06 pm |
I have a quote for you from David Brooks of the NY Times he made in reference to the Obama mania. It’s one of my favorites for 2008.
“but substantively, optimism without reality isn’t eloquence. It’s just Disney.”
Troy // July 25, 2008 at 4:12 pm |
Here is a quote you might find helpful for any churches you know…
“The mark of a great church is not its seating capacity,
but its sending capacity.” Mark Stachura