Quote by Joe Wyrostek

“As students, we were taught to build churches by doing big outreaches, getting people saved, and then we were to disciple the new believers. The only problem with that was that we spent more time planning the monster outreaches than we did on discipleship.” quote by Joe Wyrostek — Download Open image

““As students, we were taught to build churches by doing big outreaches, getting people saved, and then we were to disciple the new believers. The only problem with that was that we spent more time planning the monster outreaches than we did on discipleship.””

Joe Wyrostek

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