Caleb Breakey > Quotes

“It’s true that God wants us to grow in our knowledge and obedience of him, but he never wants us to stop living with the humility, trust, and the absolute abandonment of a child.”
― Caleb Breakey, Called to Stay: An Uncompromising Mission to Save Your Church

“Digging deep helps us see our greatest struggles and know exactly what we must pray about.”
― Caleb Breakey, Called to Stay: An Uncompromising Mission to Save Your Church

“Be committed to a real relationship with Jesus. Don’t look to fit him into your schedule, but fit your schedule around him. Think more about how to live like Jesus in real life than you do about theoretically living like him.”
― Caleb Breakey, Called to Stay: An Uncompromising Mission to Save Your Church

“Encourage other believers to love people and to do good things for unbelievers and believers alike. Look around your church and ask yourself how you can use your gifts to help others, not expecting anything in return.”
― Caleb Breakey, Called to Stay: An Uncompromising Mission to Save Your Church

“has a simple mission: to keep lost people lost. Among his numerous strategies, one of his favorites is to keep Christians convinced that ministry must be left to professionals.1    Ed Stetzer”
― Caleb Breakey, Called to Stay: An Uncompromising Mission to Save Your Church

“Go to church with an anticipation of worshipping God and glorying in his presence. Speak freely about heaven and what it will be like spending eternity with Jesus. Help others in your church see that there is so much more to the body than organization and institution. Your church is a mission, a movement, a calling.”
― Caleb Breakey, Called to Stay: An Uncompromising Mission to Save Your Church

“(if ever) do we consider whether our actions or lifestyle are grievous to the Spirit of the living God.1       Francis Chan”
― Caleb Breakey, Called to Stay: An Uncompromising Mission to Save Your Church

“If you are in Christ, you are in some intrinsic way wedded to the welfare of others…There is a sense where I am not perfected until you are perfected. We are not perfected until every child of the living God is perfected. David Powlison”
― Caleb Breakey, Called to Stay: An Uncompromising Mission to Save Your Church

“we work on ourselves harder than we work on the church, then the church becomes an automatic beneficiary…You follow Christ. You live with passion and calling. Throw your heart into your sphere of influence.3    Wayne Cordeiro”
― Caleb Breakey, Called to Stay: An Uncompromising Mission to Save Your Church

“is the only person who has the right to disown and give up on the church. But He never has. And He never will.5    Joshua Harris”
― Caleb Breakey, Called to Stay: An Uncompromising Mission to Save Your Church

“is still real and moving, but at some point we have to respond and act because of what He’s done. Like yeast and flour are both necessary to bread, both God’s actions and our response-action are necessary in this relationship with God.6    Francis Chan”
― Caleb Breakey, Called to Stay: An Uncompromising Mission to Save Your Church

“Many believe that abandoning the church is the progressive way to move toward Jesus. But from everything I see in Scripture, the progressive way to move toward Jesus is to be like him in your church. And a great way to be like Jesus in your church is to infiltrate.”
― Caleb Breakey, Called to Stay: An Uncompromising Mission to Save Your Church