Quote by Colin Marshall

“churches and denominations must be in the business of actively helping to create disciples. Disciples, people who are actively being transformed by the grace…

— Emily C. Heath

“Ministry is God’s work; we only participate in it. And as God’s work, it can neither be forced nor be prevented with absolute certainty.…

— Wesley W. Ellis

“As students, we were taught to build churches by doing big outreaches, getting people saved, and then we were to disciple the new believers.…

— Joe Wyrostek

“A very small percentage of those in the church stand behind a pulpit or sport certain kinds of identifiable clothing. The actual leadership roster…

— Dallas Willard

Every church needs to grow warmer through fellowship, deeper through discipleship, stronger through through worship, and larger through evangelism.

— Rick Warren

“Biblical church planting is evangelism that results in new churches.”

— J. Payne

“we reduce discipleship to a canned program, and so many in the church end up sidelined in a spectator mentality that delegates disciple making…

— Francis Chan

A church must grow larger and smaller at the same time. Larger through worship and smaller through small groups.

— Rick Warren

“Christians will remain a babe if they do not exercise and begin teaching others themselves. Maturity is not about knowing a lot but whether…

— Henry Hon

Even though we say Church Growth, we are actually saying, Making Disciples of Christ. Having a large church with only a few true disciples…

— Albert Kang

“Effective discipleship builds the church, not the other way around. We need to understand the church as the effect of discipleship and not the…

— Mike Breen

“As young people contribute to the faith community, their competence as members of that community grows; it is in doing the work of ministry…

— Kenda Creasy Dean