--- title: "3 Verlon Fosner Quotes" description: "Verlon Fosner has 3 quotes on SMS4Smile. Browse their most insightful sayings." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-verlon-fosner-85059.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Verlon Fosner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-verlon-fosner-85059.jpg) # Verlon Fosner **3** quotes in **4** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet ## Quotes by Verlon Fosner > [“But not all places are the same. If a church is located in suburbia, where families are the predominant social circle, then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/verlon-fosner/but-not-all-places-are-the-same-if-a-church-is-located-in-suburbia/) [Verlon Fosner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/verlon-fosner/) [Church growth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/church-growth/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/65c/verlon-fosner-85059_family_but-not-all-places-are-the-same-if-a-chu_358980.jpg) > [“We have obsessed over Sunday-morning proclamation gatherings and organizational systems for so long, we have forgotten how to do honest missiological work…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/verlon-fosner/we-have-obsessed-over-sunday-morning-proclamation-gatherings-and/) [Verlon Fosner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/verlon-fosner/) [Prayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/prayer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f2a/verlon-fosner-85059_prayer_we-have-obsessed-over-sunday-morning-pro_541718.jpg) > [“The church-growth movement of the 1960s brought many positive insights to the American landscape. However, one negative result is that it focused…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/verlon-fosner/the-church-growth-movement-of-the-1960s-brought-many-positive/) [Verlon Fosner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/verlon-fosner/) [Church growth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/church-growth/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8a6/verlon-fosner-85059_wisdom_the-church-growth-movement-of-the-1960s_578803.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/verlon-fosner/#itemlist", "name": "Verlon Fosner Quotes", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“But not all places are the same. If a church is located in suburbia, where families are the predominant social circle, then church-growth ideas work quite well when done right. However, if a church is located in an urban neighborhood in which singles are the predominant social circle, or in an impoverished neighborhood in which the lower third are the predominant social circle, then church-growth ideas will likely fail. This is why so many churches have moved out of our cities; they haven’t known how to do anything but the proclamation template, so they shrank into irrelevance, and then faced the choice to close down or move out. 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