Church Quote by Michael Frost Download Open image “The Missional church always thinks of the long haul rather than the quick fix” — Michael Frost ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Church Haul Long Long haul Missional church Quick fixes Thinking
A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey. — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
It's just stunning to watch churches struggle to get mission statements when there it is, the Great Commission, and they should simply do what… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
The church that will not give up will be outdated and passed by, quicker than they realize. — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
It's not so much that the church has a mission, it's that the mission of God has a church. — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
“The missional church will take context seriously, but will also work on recovering the biblical narrative with its richness and potency for today’s world.… — Michael Frost Copy Share Image
“Being more missional might actually mean doing fewer things. There is a Latin American proverb that says, “If you don’t know where you’re coming… — Michael Frost Copy Share Image
If the Church is not Making Disciples, then all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible, are a waste of time. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Because we believe that somewhere in the nest of paradigms contained in the phrase "missional church" lies nothing less that the future viability of… — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
There are pockets of the church that will "give up," and reap a bountiful harvest. They are going to have huge success, like the… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
It bums me out tremendously what the church has become, and if it's got me bummed, imagine what Jesus Christ must be feeling. — Whoopi Goldberg Copy Share Image
“Is a Can Opener a Can Opener . . . ? As we explain in The Shaping of Things to Come,[157] one of the “trick questions” we use… — Michael Frost Copy Share Image
“It will place a high value on communal life, more open leadership structures, and the contribution of all the people of God. It will… — Michael Frost Copy Share Image
“While the story of Jesus is indeed the key to history, to emphasize the Gospels over the rest of the New Testament is to… — Michael Frost Copy Share Image
Discipleship is rooted in a deep belief in the universal reign of God through Christ. To be a disciple is to acknowledge that reign… — Michael Frost Copy Share Image
Mission is both the announcement and the demonstration of the reign of God through Christ. — Michael Frost Copy Share Image
“a missional church is simply any church that organizes itself around the mission of God in this world.” — Michael Frost Copy Share Image
“important to note that the missional church combines the concern for community development normally characterized by the liberal churches and the desire for personal… — Michael Frost Copy Share Image
“I, for one, am happy to see the end of Christendom. I’m glad that we can no longer rely on temporal, cultural supports to… — Michael Frost Copy Share Image
If your neighbors did an analysis of your life, what would they learn about the kingdom? — Michael Frost Copy Share Image
“Many exiles leave the mainstream church and engage in the kinds of things we’ve looked at already: living an authentic life, struggling for global… — Michael Frost Copy Share Image
“In his book Satisfy Your Soul, Bruce Demarest writes, A quieted heart is our best preparation for all this work of God. . . . Meditation… — Michael Frost Copy Share Image
“Being more missional might actually mean doing fewer things. There is a Latin American proverb that says, “If you don’t know where you’re coming… — Michael Frost Copy Share Image
While the 1963 Birmingham church bombing is the most historic, there also was a series of church burnings in the 1990s. Recognition of the… — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
If I had my brothers I think with just a little bit of the correct marketing, I'd like to be almost exclusively in small… — Terry Bozzio Copy Share Image
Turn over the pages of history and read the damning record of the church's opposition to every advance in every field of science. . . . — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Jeff Chu's pilgrimage across America to discover his own place as a gay man in the Christian church as well as attitudes about being… — Donna Freitas Copy Share Image
God is not calling us to go to church; he is calling us to be his church, the hope of the world. — Craig Groeschel Copy Share Image
The emerging church movement has come to believe that the ultimate context of the spiritual aspirations of a follower of Jesus Christ is not… — Samir Selmanovic Copy Share Image
T]he church is not a place. It's not a building. It's not a preaching point. It's not a spiritual service provider. It's a people… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
There could be no more powerful argument against mixing religion and government than the success of independent African American churches in placing racial segregation… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
Worship is not about personality, temperament, personal limitations, church background, or comfort. It is about God. — John Wimber Copy Share Image
Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
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