Mission is not an optional activity for Christ’s disciples. If they are not gatherers, they are scatterers. Some supposed that a church may feature worship and nurture, leaving gathering as a minor role… Such a church is actively involved in scattering for the congregation that ignores mission will atrophy and soon find itself shattered by [...]
The vigorous, continual planting of new congregations is the single most crucial strategy for 1) the numerical growth of the Body of Christ in any city, and 2) the continual corporate renewal and revival of the existing churches in a city. Nothing else–not crusades, outreach programs, para-church ministries, growing mega-churches, congregational consulting, nor church [...]
“The missional church does not ask how can you serve me but how can we unite as the people of God for something larger than ourselves, to believe what our presbyterian principles are–that we can do far more corporately as a church, than we can do individually, to believe that deeply and profoundly.”
Bryan Chappell 2007 [...]
“It is easier to be enthusiastic about Humanity with a capital ‘H’ than it is to love individual men and women, especially those who are uninteresting, exasperating, depraved, or otherwise unattractive. Loving everybody may be an excuse for living nobody in particular.”
-C.S. Lewis
“Better is the loss that makes them humble than the success that makes them proud”
Thomas Watson - from A Body of Divinity
“Satan is real, hell is real, people are dying, sin is alive, repentance is needed, healing is necessary and people need a Jesus who bears a sword and fights for them and men pursuing death for the same cause.”
-Anthony Bradley