Colin Marshall > Quotes

“Search as we may, we don’t find in the Bible any example or concept of an inner call to ministry.”
― Colin Marshall, The Trellis and the Vine

“But it’s interesting how little the New Testament talks about church growth, and how often it talks about ‘gospel growth’ or the increase of the ‘word’.”
― Colin Marshall, The Trellis and the Vine

“Sometimes our translations may give the impression that ‘go’ is the emphasis of the command, but the main verb of the sentence is ‘make disciples’, with three subordinate participles hanging off it: going (or ‘as you go’), baptizing and teaching. ‘Baptizing’ and ‘teaching’ are the means by which the disciples are to be made. Whatever else baptism might symbolize or involve, here it refers to the initiation of disciples into repentance and submission to the authoritative Jesus, the reigning Lord of the world.”
― Colin Marshall, The Trellis and the Vine

“A vida e o ministério do treinador são um modelo para o treinado – não de perfeição, mas de desejos santos em um vaso de barro.” (pp. 85)”
― Colin Marshall, The Trellis and the Vine: The Ministry Mind-Shift that Changes Everything

“The Christian without a missionary heart is an anomaly.”
― Colin Marshall, The Trellis and the Vine

“Whatever the reason, there is no doubt that in many churches, maintaining and improving the trellis constantly takes over from tending the vine.”
― Colin Marshall, The Trellis and the Vine

“We shouldn’t sit back and wait for people to ‘feel called’ to gospel work, any more than we should sit back and wait for people to become disciples of Christ in the first place. We should be proactive in seeking, challenging and testing suitable people to be set apart for gospel work.”
― Colin Marshall, The Trellis and the Vine

“Perhaps trellis work has taken over from vine work. There are committees, structures, programs, activities and fundraising efforts, and many people put lots of time into keeping them all going, but the actual work of growing the vine falls to a very few.”
― Colin Marshall, The Trellis and the Vine

“O âmago do treinamento não é transmitir uma capacidade, e sim transmitir sã doutrina.” (pp. 80)”
― Colin Marshall, The Trellis and the Vine: The Ministry Mind-Shift that Changes Everything

“We are always an example to those whom we are teaching and training, whether we like it or not.”
― Colin Marshall, The Trellis and the Vine

“Churches don’t make disciples; disciples make disciples (Matt 28:19-20).”
― Colin Marshall, The Trellis and the Vine

“However, if we keep the gospel first and central, then learning to do particular activities more effectively can simply be a godly part of our service of Christ and other people.”
― Colin Marshall, The Trellis and the Vine

“Se treinarmos e enviarmos obreiros a novos campos... nosso ministério local pode não crescer em números, mas o evangelho avançará por meio destes novos ministros da Palavra.” (pp. 33) – Comentário: prova que crescimento não é medido pelo número de membros.”
― Colin Marshall, The Trellis and the Vine: The Ministry Mind-Shift that Changes Everything

“Qual é mais fácil: ter uma reunião para discutir o estado do carpete ou um encontro particular e difícil no qual você tem de repreender um irmão por seu comportamento pecaminoso?” (pp. 16)”
― Colin Marshall, The Trellis and the Vine: The Ministry Mind-Shift that Changes Everything

“The marvellous thing about generosity is that God loves it, and blesses it. In our experience, those churches that don’t try to hold on to their people, but continually train them and generously export them off into further training and ministry elsewhere, are the churches that God showers with more and more new people to train.”
― Colin Marshall, The Trellis and the Vine

“We will be arguing that structures don’t grow ministry any more than trellises grow vines, and that most churches need to make a conscious shift—away from erecting and maintaining structures, and towards growing people who are disciple-making disciples of Christ.”
― Colin Marshall, The Trellis and the Vine

“Deveríamos começar com as pessoas que Deus nos deu, não com nossos programas.” (pp. 27)”
― Colin Marshall, The Trellis and the Vine: The Ministry Mind-Shift that Changes Everything

“Foi não somente um bom depósito do evangelho que Paulo passou a Timóteo, e sim uma maneira de viver.” (pp. 80)”
― Colin Marshall, The Trellis and the Vine: The Ministry Mind-Shift that Changes Everything

“But the emphasis is not on the growth of the congregation as a structure—in numbers, finances and success—but on the growth of the gospel, as it is spoken and re-spoken under the power of the Spirit.”
― Colin Marshall, The Trellis and the Vine

“Podemos construir nossa treliça até que ela atinja os céus, na esperança de fazermos um nome para nós mesmos, mas ainda haverá pouco crescimento na videira.” (pp. 16)”
― Colin Marshall, The Trellis and the Vine: The Ministry Mind-Shift that Changes Everything

“There are not two sorts of disciples—the inner core who really serve Jesus and his gospel, and the rest. To be a disciple is to be a slave of Christ and to confess his name openly before others: “So everyone who acknowledges me before men, I also will acknowledge before my Father who is in heaven, but whoever denies me before men, I also will deny before my Father who is in heaven” (Matt 10:”
― Colin Marshall, The Trellis and the Vine

“Ele transformará clientes de igreja em servos, consumidores em produtores e discípulos em fazedores de”
― Colin Marshall, A Treliça e a Videira: A Mentalidade de Discipulado que Muda Tudo

“Precisamos cuidar de pessoas e ajudá-las a florescer e crescer no ministério, e não esgotá-las no interesse de manter nossos programas em continuidade.” (pp. 27)”
― Colin Marshall, The Trellis and the Vine: The Ministry Mind-Shift that Changes Everything

“pergunte a si mesmo se seu ministério é reativo ou proativo” (pp. 29)”
― Colin Marshall, The Trellis and the Vine: The Ministry Mind-Shift that Changes Everything

“far the best way to build a congregation full of disciple-making disciples is to assemble and train a band of co-workers to labour alongside you.”
― Colin Marshall, The Trellis and the Vine

“The third momentous implication is that this people-growth happens only through the power of God’s Spirit as he applies his word to people’s hearts.”
― Colin Marshall, The Trellis and the Vine

“the only growth that has any significance in God’s plans is the growth of believers. This is what the growing vine really is: it is individual, born-again believers, grafted into Christ by his word and Spirit, and drawn into mutually edifying fellowship with one another.”
― Colin Marshall, The Trellis and the Vine

“Em vez de usarmos nossos voluntários, deveríamos considerar como podemos incentivá-los... porque serviços resultam do crescimento cristão, e não o contrário.” (pp. 26)”
― Colin Marshall, The Trellis and the Vine: The Ministry Mind-Shift that Changes Everything

“The idea of personal ministry alongside preaching ministry is admirable and hard to disagree with.”
― Colin Marshall, The Trellis and the Vine

“Batizando’ e ‘ensinando’ são os meios pelos quais os discípulos devem ser feitos” (pp. 19)”
― Colin Marshall, The Trellis and the Vine: The Ministry Mind-Shift that Changes Everything