Ryan Shaw > Quotes

“This surrender isn’t a one-time thing but is continually embraced over a lifetime. There will be an initial surrendering to God, breaking the self. God will keep this process current through circumstances, helping us to continue to deny ourselves.”
― Ryan Shaw, Spiritual Equipping for Mission: Thriving as God's Message Bearers

“Attrition (leaving the mission field for various reasons) is generally not the result of wrong ministry methods but of failing to cultivate our inner lives in God.”
― Ryan Shaw, Spiritual Equipping for Mission: Thriving as God's Message Bearers

“Joseph’s life teaches that difficulties are God’s testing ground for what he has created us to walk in.”
― Ryan Shaw, Spiritual Equipping for Mission: Thriving as God's Message Bearers

“Much burnout in vocational ministry appears to be rooted in misplaced identity. Burnout can be a result of overwork done in the wrong spirit, with the wrong motivation.”
― Ryan Shaw, Spiritual Equipping for Mission: Thriving as God's Message Bearers

“Humility has been defined as believers’ consent to allow God to be all within them, through which they surrender themselves to God’s working.1 This was Jesus through and through in relationship with his Father. He did not rely on his own will (though he was God), but on the will of the Father.”
― Ryan Shaw, Spiritual Equipping for Mission: Thriving as God's Message Bearers

“The depth to which we’re willing to die to ourselves is the height to which God will use us for his glory.”
― Ryan Shaw, Spiritual Equipping for Mission: Thriving as God's Message Bearers

“One condition for producing fruit in God’s kingdom repeatedly shows up in Scripture and in mission history, though it’s phrased in more than one way: “The Lord was with them,” “The hand of the Lord was upon them,” “The power of the Spirit rested on them,” “They were filled with the Spirit” and so on. This is a power-packed spiritual key. In Scripture, we’re rarely told of a biblical character’s personal charm, great oratorical abilities or skills in drawing a crowd. God purposely looks beyond these qualities to focus on the one essential ingredient to kingdom effectiveness: a life saturated with his powerful presence.”
― Ryan Shaw, Spiritual Equipping for Mission: Thriving as God's Message Bearers

“An often-overlooked yet fundamental mark of a thriving message bearer is humility mixed with meekness.”
― Ryan Shaw, Spiritual Equipping for Mission: Thriving as God's Message Bearers