Neil Cole Quotes

#1. The journey to significance starts with the mere willingness to surrender the status quo and take the first step of faith into the adventure.

Neil Cole

#2. When we start putting together systems to make sure that future generations obey, what we end up doing is building an institution that conforms people to a pattern. They don't have their own faith, they're living off the residue of faith of a previous generation.

Neil Cole

#3. The true well-being of the church: when she cannot count on anything anymore but God's promises.
-Johannes Hoekendijk

Neil Cole

#4. Every church throughout history whose members were willing to surrender their lives for the sake of Christ witnessed dramatic and spontaneous growth.

Neil Cole

#5. Another claims, "Every Christian is a church planter, every home is a church, and every church building is a
training center.

Neil Cole

#6. The church is at its best in two's or three's-not in two or three hundreds or two or three thousands. "Where two or three are gathered together, there am I in the midst of them.

Neil Cole

#7. Attendance on Sundays does not transform lives; Jesus within their hearts is what changes people.

Neil Cole

#8. One of our church networks has as its purpose statement "To have a church within walking distance of every person living in Las Vegas.

Neil Cole

#9. If you want to win this world to Christ, you are going to have to sit in the smoking section. That is where lost people are found, and if you make them put their cigarette out to hear the message they will be thinking about only one thing: "When can I get another cigarette?

Neil Cole

#10. We would do much better as leaders in the Church to learn at the feet of the farmer rather than study with the CEO of a corporation.

Neil Cole

#11. I have come to understand church as this: the presence of Jesus among His people called out as a spiritual family to pursue His mission on this planet.

Neil Cole

#12. Church begins with Jesus: who He is and what He has done. It is all about Jesus, and if it begins
to be about something else, then it stops being the church as Jesus meant it to be.

Neil Cole

#13. Instead of bringing people to church so that we can then bring them to Christ, let's bring Christ to people where they live.

Neil Cole

#14. Let us all remember that it is not our own reputations that are at stake in the missions to which we are called. It is His. The successes and the setbacks are His. It is His rejection, His reception - not ours. These

Neil Cole

#15. There are few character traits that stand out in this world more than a generous heart.

Neil Cole