Quotes About Church Planting

#1. Old churches must not simply stand as monuments to the past but as spiritual grandparents that have invested in the future by passing on their life to others and releasing their offspring to form new congregations. Church planting needs to be given priority by old-line denominations.

Eddie Gibbs

#2. When we think "mission" we must think "church." And the best way to link church and mission is through church planting.

Tim Chester

#3. Entrepreneurs are favored in neoliberal contexts because they prize ingenuity, self-invention, adaptation, dispensing with establishment hierarchies, and self-mastery. Church planting can be read as a religious incarnation of late modernity's entrepreneurial disposition.

James S Bielo

#4. church-planting team is representative of the culture, not a group of paid professionals or full-time ministers.

Jen Hatmaker

#5. Missional leaders understand the power of connecting relationally in their community through personal networking.

Gary Rohrmayer

#6. In the Church, when we talk about 'the world', we often create an us and them situation and end up planting the seeds of all that we feel wrong with the world in the soil of our own backyard.

Steve Scott

#7. Missional leaders know that their church will only grow as large as its capacity to provide ongoing care through a network of small groups and ministry teams.

Gary Rohrmayer

#8. Maybe you are beginning to sense that if your experience of sin is not all that bitter, and your experience of marriage not all that sweet, maybe your theology is not all that it should be.

Dave Harvey

#9. A few seconds later, the chair across from me shifts again, another body planting in it. I glance up at him, smiling when he mutters under his breath, just like a whore in church around here.

J.M. Darhower

#10. The new morality does not consist in saving but in expanding consumption.

Simon N. Patten

#11. Life in a great society, or for that matter in a small, is a web of tangled relations of all sorts, whose adjustment so that it may be endurable is an extraordinarily troublesome matter.

Learned Hand

#12. The IMPOSSIBLE is ONLY relevant to those who NEVER attempt it ... otherwise it is ABSTACT and MEANINGLESS

John Paul Warren

#13. Make sure your sphere of influence is a piece of Heaven

Sunday Adelaja

#14. Do not try to be pretty. You were not meant to be pretty; you were meant to burn down the earth and graffiti the sky. Don't let anyone ever simplify you to just 'pretty'.

Anonymous

#15. The bold display of our unattractive parts is an effective substitute for beauty since it duplicates beauty's principal effects, namely the excitation of admiration, charm, and envy in the beholder, who is moved to wish that they too could carry their own defects with the same ease.

Agona Apell

#16. One of the landmines that church planters never dodge is the landmine
of leadership development. I will never forget the day when I realized
that there are no such things as 'ready-made leaders'.

Gary Rohrmayer

#17. Great leaders are teachable leaders.

Gary Rohrmayer

#18. And how are you?" said Winnie-the-Pooh.
Eeyore shook his head from side to side.
"Not very how," he said. "I don't seem to have felt at all how for a long time."
"Dear, dear," said Pooh, "I'm sorry about that. Let's have a look at you.

A.A. Milne

#19. Effective leaders are good spotters. They are on the lookout for
potential leaders. They have the ability to look beyond other's deficiencies to
see their possibilities.

Gary Rohrmayer

#20. It is thyself, mine own self's better part; Mine eye's clear eye, my dear heart's dearer heart; My food, my fortune, and my sweet hope's aim, My sole earth's heaven, and my heaven's claim.

William Shakespeare

#21. I thought this director gig was just one of those side roads we take at times on the journey to our true purpose. Now I see that in God's economy, nothing is wasted

Gay Idle

#22. The world and it's people are my church".

~R. Alan Woods [1996]

R. Alan Woods

#23. I have a boyfriend and a dog, and I still haven't figured out what I want to be when I grow up.

Chelsea Clinton

#24. As the church get older and older it becomes harder to keep evangelism on the front burner because of all the competing issues that keeps pushing it back.

Gary Rohrmayer

#25. Every church has a marketing plan! The only difference is that some are better than others! When I think of marketing I think of building a relationship with those within reach of your ministry who know nothing about your church or are disconnected from your people.

Gary Rohrmayer

#26. Having a good definition of spiritual leadership is critical to development
of leadership cultural throughout your church. You need to know what you are
shooting for if you are going to hit the target.

Gary Rohrmayer