Christianity Quote by Jim Putman Download Open image ““churches are full of “Christians” but not disciples,”” — Jim Putman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Christianity
“For at least several decades the churches of the Western world have not made discipleship a condition of being a Christian. One is not… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“The New Testament church was all about being and making disciples of Jesus.” — Jim Putman Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“the church is part of God’s plan for every Christian, that Christian selves are a work in progress that cannot be left to the… — Heath White Copy Share Image
“When discipleship takes a place alongside leadership, evangelism, preaching, worship, counseling, support groups, and other programs, it ceases to be what it was meant… — Bill Hull Copy Share Image
“If you make disciples, you always get the church. But if you make a church, you rarely get disciples.” — Mike Breen Copy Share Image
“the governing assumption today, among professing Christians, is that we can be “Christians” forever and never become disciples.” — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“Discipleship is based not on devotion to abstract ideals, but on devotion to a person, the Lord Jesus Christ;” — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
“every church can treat each discipleship class and each worship service as an opportunity for continual rehearsal of what the words, stories, symbols, rituals,… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
“Christian mission is not to preach Christ, but to be Christians in life. There” — Alexander Schmemann Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Inspired by Jesus (literally), we seek to love people and tell them what we have found in him.” — Jim Putman Copy Share Image
“The New Testament church was all about being and making disciples of Jesus.” — Jim Putman Copy Share Image
“As a group, Christians are known more for what we are against than for our love.” — Jim Putman Copy Share Image
“But attendance, busyness, construction, finances, and programs are not real indications of success. The core question of effectiveness — the question that ultimately matters… — Jim Putman Copy Share Image
“Instead of seeking to hide their sin and project an image of perfection, church leaders need to show people they lead that they too… — Jim Putman Copy Share Image
Christianity was never meant to be defined by its disciplines, but by its passions. — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
I think, here's what I've realized from interviewing people, and I've been very open about my Catholicism and my love of Christ and I… — Jay Mohr Copy Share Image
“God hates Hell. He hates the idea of people going there. He hates it so much that He was willing to take on human… — Evan Minton Copy Share Image
“some of my good Baptist brethren in Georgia had done a little preaching from the pulpit against the KKK, I would have a little… — Norman Moss Copy Share Image
I pray that wherever we are and whatever duties we have in the priesthood of God, we will be united in the cause to… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
Why do Christians sing when they are together? The reason is, quite simply, because in singing together it is possible for them to speak… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“every church can treat each discipleship class and each worship service as an opportunity for continual rehearsal of what the words, stories, symbols, rituals,… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
The ability of the gospel to unite us on common strengths and common truths is one of the great miracles . . . of the gospel. — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
“A question for Christians who accept evolution: When did we gain a "soul"? Did Homo habilis have a soul? Homo ergaster? Did God only… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
The notion of a non-religious Christmas is ridiculous. But so is the insistence on the part of Christians that politicians and retailers carry out their pro-Christmas crusade. — Rachel Campos-Duffy Copy Share
A real Christian in an odd number anyway. He feels supreme love for One whom he has never seen, talks familiarly every day to Someone he cannot see, expects to go to heaven on the virtue of Another, empties himself in order to be full, admits he is wrong so he can be declared right, goes down in order to… — Anonymous Copy Share
Because the truth is that gossip is as good as gospel in this town. You can save face but you won't ever save your… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
