Mark Eldredge > Quotes

“Dallas Willard that says, “Your current system is perfectly designed to get you the results you are getting.”
― Mark Eldredge, Revive: Bringing Health, Vitality, and Growth Back into Your Church

“this book and the seminar/coaching process, the word “REVIVE” is an acrostic that stands for REnewal, Vision & Values, Insistence on church health, Vital strategies, and Enacting the vision.”
― Mark Eldredge, Revive: Bringing Health, Vitality, and Growth Back into Your Church

“if Jesus is not the first and main reason for the message, it’s a fruitless endeavor. It’s growth for the sake of growth, rather than for the sake of a healthier community in which the individual can find their own healing and restoration through Jesus Christ. That’s the heart of the revived church.”
― Mark Eldredge, Revive: Bringing Health, Vitality, and Growth Back into Your Church

“The Church is only as strong as its next generation.”
― Mark Eldredge, Revive: Bringing Health, Vitality, and Growth Back into Your Church

“As opposed to a church in the Incline stage that is vision-driven, future-oriented, and focused on reaching the outside community, a church in Decline tends to be structure-driven, past-oriented, and focused on keeping the existing core members in place.”
― Mark Eldredge, Revive: Bringing Health, Vitality, and Growth Back into Your Church

“when God wants to revitalize a church, he takes them through five types of renewal. These never happen out of order.” That is a bold statement I’ve found to be true. Renewal is the cornerstone of church revitalization. The five types of renewal are Personal, Relational, Missional, Structural, and Cultural.”
― Mark Eldredge, Revive: Bringing Health, Vitality, and Growth Back into Your Church