Ed Stetzer quotes:

Don't let your church be a cul-de-sac on the Great Commission highway.

Being Missional means actually doing mission right where you are. Missional means adopting the posture of a missionary, learning and adapting to the culture around you while remaining Biblically sound.

If we demand things in worship that can't be in every culture, then we're demanding cultural preferences, not biblical.

We have to assess: Are we making disciples along the way as we draw people to our churches?

Teaching people to become like Jesus, outside of the power of Jesus, dishonors Jesus.

If you're regularly willing to give a critique, but not willing to take one, you're not a leader, you're a cynic.

I don't think you can love Jesus without loving His wife.

Barna is correct when he writes, "After fifteen years of diligent digging into the world around me, I have reached several conclusions about the future of the Christian church in America. The central conclusion is that the American church is dying due to lack of strong spiritual leadership. In this time of unprecedented opportunity and plentiful resources, the church is actually losing influence. The primary reason is the lack of leadership. Nothing is more important than leadership."7

Regrettably, we've made it acceptable to sit in church week after week & do nothing & still call yourself a 'Christian.'

A church without the broken is a broken church.

To engage people in culture we must remember that holiness is separation from sin, not separation from sinners.

Community is essential when it comes to successfully living out the Christian walk in a day-to-day context. So the math is simple: More community = More disciples.

You cannot hate a people and reach a people at the same time.

Put your 'yes' on the table and let God put it on the map.

If your church loves the way you do church more than your children, it loves the wrong thing.