Mike Breen Quotes

#1. If we're going to make disciples and move out in mission, we need to go from managing boundaries to integrating family and mission into one life, a cohesive framework and fabric that empowers a culture of discipleship and mission, not just occasional events and periodic programs.

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#2. If you set out to build the church, there is no guarantee you will make disciples. It is far more likely that you will create consumers who depend on the spiritual services that religious professionals provide.

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#3. The goal is not to run a program called "Missional Community." The goal is to learn how to function as an extended family on mission.

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#4. The message was clear: to be a disciple meant that you learn how to make disciples - an ever-multiplying movement meant to bless the whole world.

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#5. the purpose of a family on mission is to multiply the life of Jesus by reproducing ourselves into the lives of others, so they become disciples of Jesus who can then reproduce themselves into the lives of others.

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#6. You become part of the family by surrendering your agenda and joining God's deal.

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#7. The hard reality is that immersion works only when people are actually fluent in something.

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#8. We are a society of disconnected people longing for connections.

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#9. All other emotions belong to the earth, but passion inhabits the universe.

Fredrik Backman

#10. Designers can show us a better future, can present us with all kinds of new possibilities so that we can decide: Is this what we want? Before any of that can happen, though, the designer must first commit - by taking what is just a faint glimmer in the mind's eye and giving it shape and life.

Warren Berger

#11. There seem to be three different ways that we learn, but unequivocally, we learn best when there is a dynamic interplay between all three at one time: 1) Classroom/Lecture passing on of information 2) Apprenticeship 3) Immersion

Mike Breen

#12. Effective discipleship builds the church, not the other way around. We need to understand the church as the effect of discipleship and not the cause.

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#13. Complimenting someone in an exaggerated way is known as flattery, and flattery will generally get you anything you want ...

Lemony Snicket

#14. If I only had a little humility, I would be perfect.

Ted Turner

#15. I know, I know - men have that extra hero gene in their foolish makeup; it's part of our charm. But I happen to know some women who have their inner sports hero, too.

George Vecsey

#16. Give a man a fish and he can eat for a day, but teach a man to fish and he can eat for a lifetime. Changing the world may not be so daunting after all.

Mike Breen

#17. The problem is that we don't have a "missional" problem or a leadership problem in the Western church. We have a discipleship problem.

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#18. As we make disciples and mobilize God's people for mission, the methodology we use must be congruent with the way of Jesus. We need to learn how to do family on mission.

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#19. balance invitation and challenge appropriately

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#20. And we, from the whole of our life experience there, have concluded that there is only one way to withstand violence: with firmness.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#21. aim for "low control, high accountability

Mike Breen