Peter Greer > Quotes

“A [person] ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian . . . and most of all, his family ought to know. —D. L. Moody”
― Peter Greer, The Spiritual Danger of Doing Good

“In its simplest form, Mission True organizations know why they exist and protect their core at all costs. They remain faithful to what they believe God has entrusted them to do. They define what is immutable: their values and purposes, their DNA, their heart and soul.”
― Peter Greer, Mission Drift: The Unspoken Crisis Facing Leaders, Charities, and Churches

“If you’re married, recognize you hold a covenant with your spouse, not your work. God ordained the biblical covenant of marriage. He didn’t create one for work. Your first priorities are God, the very center of all we do, and then your family. And then—and only then—your work. The problem is that we confuse our service to God with our vocation, and the two are not synonymous.”
― Peter Greer, The Spiritual Danger of Doing Good

“Without careful attention, faith-based organizations will inevitably drift from their founding mission.”
― Peter Greer, Mission Drift: The Unspoken Crisis Facing Leaders, Charities, and Churches

“Looking around at a room of worn-out, high-achieving international development leaders, she said to us, “Transformational leadership begins at home.” No matter what the numbers at work say, we aren’t a success unless our children and spouses are on board with what we do.”
― Peter Greer, The Spiritual Danger of Doing Good

“Pastor Training School Consider this mission statement of a well-known university: “To be plainly instructed and consider well that the main end of your life and studies is to know God and Jesus Christ.” Founded in 1636, this university employed exclusively Christian professors, emphasized character formation in its students above all else, and rooted all its policies and practices in a Christian worldview. This school served as a bastion of academic excellence and Christian distinction.1 This mission statement, however, is not from Dallas Theological Seminary. Neither is it from Wheaton College. It’s from Harvard University—this statement described their founding mission. Harvard began as a school to equip ministers to share the Good News.”
― Peter Greer, Mission Drift: The Unspoken Crisis Facing Leaders, Charities, and Churches

“If you’ve served internationally or in your local church for any length of time, you eventually realize that doing good does not guarantee that only good things happen in your life.”
― Peter Greer, The Spiritual Danger of Doing Good

“Forty-seven times in Ecclesiastes, the Teacher instructs us to look. To examine. To press into the actual facts of this fleeting life.”
― Peter Greer, 40/40 Vision: Clarifying Your Mission in Midlife

“Proverbs says, “Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life.”[8] Everything flows from the heart—our motivations, our desires, and our good deeds. Without evaluating our motives, it is possible to love our service more than we love our Savior. It is easy to pursue working to see “thy Kingdom come” without having a vision of our King. It is possible to be so proud of all we’re doing for God that pride chokes our good deeds.”
― Peter Greer, The Spiritual Danger of Doing Good