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“These people were marked by 3 characteristics: • a positive hope that there is something more even though the church is not reaching what they feel is its potential • already serving in activities outside the formal church structure • ample relationships outside the church especially with people who didn’t share their faith journey.”
― Roy Moran, Hybrid Church: How the local church can engage disciple-making movements strategy

“The second important key to this strategy (the first being a passion for the lost) is a willingness to build Jesus’ Kingdom on earth even if it means not growing our church’s Sunday attendance.”
― Roy Moran, Hybrid Church: How the local church can engage disciple-making movements strategy

“Key Learnings • a passion for the lost drives strategy • a priority on Kingdom growth over church growth • small conversations rather than big promotions • failing faster was the best way forward • turning failure into learning moved us forward • train, train and retrain • aggressive coaching and mentoring”
― Roy Moran, Hybrid Church: How the local church can engage disciple-making movements strategy

“The church is a movement of people, not an organization that lives in a box on the corner.”
― Roy Moran, Spent Matches: Igniting the Signal Fire for the Spiritually Dissatisfied

“Jesus' hope was that it would be normal for His followers to make disciples as they lived out a dangerous message that would divide families and heal the brokenhearted, challenge the well off, and encourage the impoverished, transform the oppressors and bring freedom to the oppressed. To fail to make disciples would indicate followers weren't connected to Jesus and the heart of his mission (John 15:8).”
― Roy Moran, Spent Matches: Igniting the Signal Fire for the Spiritually Dissatisfied

“Both Jesus and Paul practiced form following function. The biblical function of the mission, multiplicative disciple-making, provided the direction and the form of the churches that followed.

The seemed to know that if you make disciple-making disciples, the result is always a biblically functioning community--Jesus' church.”
― Roy Moran, Spent Matches: Igniting the Signal Fire for the Spiritually Dissatisfied

“Instead of figuring out how to disciple--teaching to identify with Jesus and to obey Him--we drifted toward converting people to a set of propositions and then attempting to get them to understand that Jesus wants to be more than their Savior.”
― Roy Moran, Spent Matches: Igniting the Signal Fire for the Spiritually Dissatisfied

“Christians have always placed a high valued on those who knew the most about the Bible rather than those who obeyed the most. Consequently discipleship has become synonymous with the acquisition of knowledge about Jesus which seldom translates to a life becoming more like Jesus.”
― Roy Moran, Hybrid Church: How the local church can engage disciple-making movements strategy

“Getting people to believe that legitimate spiritual communities can exist apart from buildings and budgets is not as easy as one might think”
― Roy Moran, Hybrid Church: How the local church can engage disciple-making movements strategy