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“It is this personal knowledge that is the basis of discipleship, and it involves more than reading the Bible, memorizing Scripture, and praying. It is intimately walking in communion with the Father through living, loving, and spending time with God.”
― Robby Gallaty, Growing Up: How to Be a Disciple Who Makes Disciples

“When the church becomes an end in itself, it ends. When Sunday school, as great as it is, becomes an end in itself, it ends. When small groups ministry becomes an end in itself, it ends. When the worship service becomes an end in itself, it ends. What we need is for discipleship to become the goal, and then the process never ends. The process is fluid. It is moving. It is active. It is a living thing. It must continue to go on. Every disciple must make disciples.”
― Robby Gallaty, Growing Up: How to Be a Disciple Who Makes Disciples

“Sadly, some gospel presentations sound a lot like my pyramid scheme business pitch. People walk away feeling like they got sold something.”
― Robby Gallaty, Replicate: How to Create a Culture of Disciple-Making Right Where You Are

“Begin each day with “Our Father” and end it with “In Jesus’ name, amen.” In”
― Robby Gallaty, Growing Up: How to Be a Disciple Who Makes Disciples

“If the message doesn’t move the preacher in the study, it probably won’t move the people in the service.”
― Robby Gallaty, Preaching for the Rest of Us: Essentials for Text-Driven Preaching

“But before a person can make disciples, he or she must first be a disciple.”
― Robby Gallaty, Growing Up: How to Be a Disciple Who Makes Disciples

“Every believer should be able to answer two questions. Who am I discipling? And who is discipling me? Every church should be able to answer two questions. Do we have a plan for making disciples? And is it working?”
― Robby Gallaty, Growing Up: How to Be a Disciple Who Makes Disciples

“It is Scripture's position that if change is going to happen, we must get into the Word until the Word gets into us!”
― Robby Gallaty, Firmly Planted: How to Cultivate a Faith Rooted in Christ

“People profess to be Christians yet believe they do not need to follow Jesus. We’ve defined discipleship as optional, a choice and not a demand.”2 Jesus didn’t just save us from sin; He saved us for something.”
― Robby Gallaty, Replicate: How to Create a Culture of Disciple-Making Right Where You Are

“The rabbis had an interesting way of illustrating this. They compared the Holy Spirit to water, which naturally seeks the lowest resting point on the ground when it is poured out.16 In a similar manner, God’s Spirit seeks out the lowest, the most humble person to rest upon.”
― Robby Gallaty, The Forgotten Jesus: How Western Christians Should Follow an Eastern Rabbi

“When reading the New Testament, it's important to recognize that Jesus never disregarded the written law, the Hebrew scriptures. When he rejected a teaching, it was always a teaching of the oral law, the extrabiblical rules and interpretations of the rabbis.”
― Robby Gallaty, The Forgotten Jesus: How Western Christians Should Follow an Eastern Rabbi

“it is impossible to grow as a Christian apart from the community of faith.”
― Robby Gallaty, Replicate: How to Create a Culture of Disciple-Making Right Where You Are

“Remember, you can’t microwave disciples.”
― Robby Gallaty, Growing Up: How to Be a Disciple Who Makes Disciples

“Instead of abolishing or destroying the Old Testament scriptures or setting them aside, Jesus says that he has come to "fulfill" them. This means he has come to properly establish, correctly interpret, and complete their intended purpose.”
― Robby Gallaty, The Forgotten Jesus: How Western Christians Should Follow an Eastern Rabbi

“Accountability never gives the right to condemn or criticize. Its goal is to redeem and reconcile us back to Christ through a proper understanding of our identity as sons and daughters of God.”
― Robby Gallaty, Growing Up: How to Be a Disciple Who Makes Disciples

“Until disciple-making becomes the ministry of the church and not a ministry in the church, we will never see our discipleship efforts impact the world the way that Jesus envisioned.”
― Robby Gallaty, Rediscovering Discipleship: Making Jesus’ Final Words Our First Work

“We’ve spent so much time trying to make sure someone can share their faith with unbelievers that we’ve forgotten to teach them how to share their lives with them.”
― Robby Gallaty, Replicate: How to Create a Culture of Disciple-Making Right Where You Are

“The Hebrew language tends to be characterized as dynamic, impassioned, and explosive... Greek mental activity appears harmonious, prudent, moderate and peaceful; to the person to whom the Greek kind of thinking occurs plainly as ideal, Hebrew thinking and its manner of expression appear exaggerated, immoderate, discordant, and in bad taste. Adopting a Hebrew mindset forces the reader to think with two hands simultaneously: on the one hand and on the other hand... The Middle Eastern mind learns by doing.”
― Robby Gallaty, The Forgotten Jesus: How Western Christians Should Follow an Eastern Rabbi

“A midrash - translated as "something that is searched out" - is a particular teaching by a Jewish teacher on a passage of scripture.”
― Robby Gallaty, The Forgotten Jesus: How Western Christians Should Follow an Eastern Rabbi

“Fruit is not the saving measure of salvation, but rather it is the evidence of a healthy, firmly-planted believer.”
― Robby Gallaty, Firmly Planted: How to Cultivate a Faith Rooted in Christ

“Many Christians are...educated beyond their obedience”
― Robby Gallaty, Growing Up: How to Be a Disciple Who Makes Disciples