"No one is advocating 'slow' for the sake of slow. But when 'slow' allows people to know the God of the universe who sent his Son to die for sinners, I’m willing to proceed as slowly as necessary." —Brad Buser
Discipleship
"If you say, 'I want to be a missionary, but I'm not really interested in the church,' you're saying you have better ideas than God does." —Trip Lee
"I don't believe that Jesus separated the physical, social, economic problems so far from their spiritual lives.” —Billy North
"Christian faith rests on a divine act of translation. ‘The Word became flesh and dwelt among us’ (John 1:14). Any confidence we have in the translatability of the Bible rests on that prior act of translation. There is a history of translation of the Bible because there was a translation of the...
“The heart of the mission, the heart of every Christian, and the heart of a business needs to beat to the tune of Jesus. Jesus gave us two simple commands: Love God and love your neighbor as yourself. This was Jesus’ summary of the Law and the Prophets. When we work, we do it for God’s glory...
“Church planting is actually strategic warfare and is similar to attempting to establish a beachhead in enemy territory." —Fred Herron
"Paul’s churches were indigenous churches in the proper sense of the word; and I believe that the secret of their foundation lay in his recognition of the church as a local church . . . and in his profound belief and trust in the Holy Spirit indwelling his converts and the churches of which they...
“The message about Christ has to penetrate beyond language, in the sense of the translation of words; it has to pass into the local systems of thinking and choosing, the networks of relationship, that make up identity.” —Andrew Walls
"Invest your life in what Jesus invested His life in: Reaching the unexpected and un-respected; whether from the other side of the world or the other side of the tracks, whether the social outcast or the remote and forgotten peoples." —Aaron Crider
I read a quote recently that said “Imagine living life so carefully that there are no signs you lived at all." I can’t get over it. I keep thinking about that quote. It stirs deep within me varying emotions. But the fact does remain that for most humanity eventually there will be no sign that...