Leonard Sweet Quotes

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• Jesus invested everything he had in a team. The Bible knows nothing about solo ministry, only team ministry.
• The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create.
• Your life is not your own: it belongs to God. To "be yourself" is to be and do what God wants you to be and…
• God is a God of motion, of movement, and of mission... Mission is not an activity of the church but an attribute of God. God…
• What is the difference between a living thing and a dead thing? In the medical world, a clinical definition of death is a body that…
• Can you imagine doing ministry the last five hundred years and getting away with ‘Sorry, I don’t do books’? Can you imagine doing ministry in…
• The greater the amount of knowledge you accumulate, the bigger your island gets, but the greater the shoreline of the unknown becomes. In short, the…
• One can be a faithful disciple of Jesus Christ without denying the flickers of the sacred in followers of Yahweh, or Kali, or Krishna
• The strength of the church is not the strength of its institutions but the authenticity of its witness.
• Stagnation is death. If you don't change, you die. It's that simple. It's that scary.
• When a Japanese manufacturer was asked by his North American counterpart, What is the best language in which to do business?" the man responded: "My…
• Hirsch and Ford believe that we've 'demonstrated' enough. It's now time for 'doing.' This book shows how to be missional 'Right Here, Right Now.'
• What you do is your history. What you set in motion is your legacy.
• Followers of Jesus don’t so much see different things from anyone else as they see the same things differently.
• If your identity is found in Christ, then it matters less and less what people think of you.
• I only want to write one thing over the doorpost to my heart and life: “Jesus Christ lives here.
• It would not do for the consumer to know that the hamburger she is eating came from a steer who spent much of his life…
• Two opposing gospels are fighting one another for the soul of our nation and, increasingly, the world: the gospel of consumption and the gospel of…
• No one "discovers" the future. The future is not a discovery. The future is not a destiny. The future is a decision, an intervention. Do…
• People who minister worldwide to protect and conserve the environment are of no lower status than those who minister to plant churches.

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