Michael White > Quotes

“A proud man is always looking down on things and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you. —C. S. Lewis3”
― Michael White, Rebuilt: Awakening the Faithful, Reaching the Lost, and Making Church Matter

“Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, heartfelt compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience, bearing with one another and forgiving one another, if one has a grievance against another; as the Lord has forgiven you, so must you also do. And over all these put on love, that is, the bond of perfection. —Colossians 3:12–14”
― Michael White, Rebuilt: Awakening the Faithful, Reaching the Lost, and Making Church Matter

“Today it is imperative that any distinction or division should be overcome, because the choice between saving the world and changing it is a false one. They are intimately related, the work of redemption and the work of restoration.”
― Michael White, Rebuilt: Awakening the Faithful, Reaching the Lost, and Making Church Matter

“The movement of the kingdom of God is the movement of love. Ultimately we’re helping to restore the reign of love. And we won’t see it—we’ll miss it—unless we’re serving one another.”
― Michael White, Rebuilt: Awakening the Faithful, Reaching the Lost, and Making Church Matter

“we thought the reason the parish was losing market share was simply because our customers weren’t being well served and our product line wasn’t that good.”
― Michael White, Rebuilt: Awakening the Faithful, Reaching the Lost, and Making Church Matter