Category: Quotes
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Throw a party!
glocalnet t-lounge: Throw More Parties!: “One of the best pieces of advice that I received early on was simply put, ‘Throw more Parties.’ Church planting really comes down to meeting people and connecting those people to one another. They may connect with you early on but if they don’t connect with one another they will […]
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Control vs. Accountability
“Control is deciding what people can and can’t do. Accountability is rendering an account of what a person has or has not already done. Control is more of a power issue. Accountability is more of an integrity issue.” – William Easum, in Sacred Cow Makes Gourmet Burgers (as quoted by Eddie Gibbs in ChurchNext) (emphasis […]
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Quick Thoughts: boldness and the kingdom
“A great deal more failure is the result of an excess of caution than of bold experimenting with new ideas. The frontiers of the kingdom of God were never advanced by men and women of caution.” – J. Oswald Sanders
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Quick Thoughts: God cares about character
“The major work is that which God is doing to and in the leader, not through him or her. Most emerging leaders don’t recognize this. They evaluate productivity, activities, fruitfulness, etc. But God is quietly, often in unusual ways, trying to get the leader to see that one ministers out of what one is. God […]
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Quick Thoughts: Bonhoeffer says “do something”
“One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.” – Dietrich Bonhoeffer A timely reminder after my last post …
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Thursday quotage: church as business, life as practice, and missional theologians
A few quotes I’ve been thinking about… “Maybe if we stopped talking about and treating church like it’s a business, non-Christians would stop acting like we are trying to sell them a bag of goods.” – Shaula Overholt “I want to study less and live more, so my teaching is less theoretical and more experiential.” […]
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Quick thoughts: Preaching and leading in truth
“The worse thing a leader (preacher) can do is give people what they want. If I give my kids what they want they will eat nine corn dogs for dinner, be unhealthy, go off to school, flunk out, live in our basement and eat Lucky Charms for lunch while playing HALO and typing on their […]
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Quick thoughts: Rob Bell on the church
“The church is the only organization that exists for the benefit of its non-members.” – Rob Bell, Mars Hill Bible Church
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Like little clouds
“They’re so comfortable! They’re like walking around on little clouds.” – Grete, as she tried on her new Croc sandals a few moments ago
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Quick thoughts: Ortberg on preaching
“If I’m to preach to people effectively, I must be freed from my need for their approval and applause. As long as I am chained to that need, then my preaching will really be trying to fill up something in me that I can never fill.” –John Ortberg is pastor of Menlo Park Presbyterian Church […]
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Isn’t She Beautiful?
Joshua Longbrake posted some of his notes from Mars Hill’s Isn’t She Beautiful? conference. It looks like a good snapshot of the event. +the art of space //”get in the boat.” _Jesus to His disciples //Jesus was constantly getting away. sitting by a lake. praying on a mountain side. in a boat. people would […]
Jon Sampson 