Greg Stier > Quotes

“Satan whispers in our ears that it’s not the same, that Paul’s gospel was somehow infused with apostolic superpowers, and that our high-tech, Westernized teenagers are somehow immune to the power of the gospel. He tells us they’re too spoiled, too apathetic and too distracted for the gospel to get through to them.”
― Greg Stier, Gospelize Your Youth Ministry: A Spicy "New" Philosophy of Ministry

“In the words of E.M. Bounds in his book, Power Through Prayer: What the Church needs today is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more and novel methods, but men whom the Holy Ghost can use—men of prayer, men mighty in prayer. The Holy Ghost does not flow through methods, but through men. He does not come on machinery, but on men. He does not anoint plans, but men—men of prayer.”
― Greg Stier, Gospelize Your Youth Ministry: A Spicy "New" Philosophy of Ministry

“What the Church needs today is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more and novel methods, but men whom the Holy Ghost can use—men of prayer, men mighty in prayer. The Holy Ghost does not flow through methods, but through men. He does not come on machinery, but on men. He does not anoint plans, but men—men of prayer.1”
― Greg Stier, Firing Jesus

“I contend for this, that to gospelize a man is the greatest miracle in the world. All the other miracles are wrapped up in this one. To gospelize a man, or, in other words, to convert him, is a greater work than to open the eyes of the blind.”
― Greg Stier, Gospelize Your Youth Ministry: A Spicy "New" Philosophy of Ministry