Church Quote by Rick Warren

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

— Rick Warren

Churches should evaluate everything they do to determine how it can be done better.

— Thom S. Rainer

Some major churches overemphasize the importance of preaching as a means to increase membership and fail to reach out with compassion to their neighbors…

— Jimmy Carter

What's true for churches is true for other institutions: the older and more organized they get, the less adaptable they become. That's why the…

— Gary Hamel

If the church is going to make a difference, it will need to go through the "big give-up" stage. Churches will need to quit…

— John C. Maxwell

In all my eleven years of itinerant ministry I cannot recall any growing church which does not encourage small groups

— Eddie Gibbs

American churches work very hard at reaching out to people to bring them in.

— Rodney Stark

“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…

— Verlon Fosner

Churches, depending on their policy, can do fantastic work with people in the community.

— Annie Lennox

“A "successful" church can offer outstanding programs and ministries, but if its members are not being transformed, it is not a healthy church.”

— Kevin G. Ford

In a smaller church your pastoring sets up your preaching. In a larger church your preaching sets up your pastoring.

— Timothy Keller

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

— Rick Warren