Church Leadership Quotes

“If you BABYSIT the youths, you will get BABIES.
If you LEAD the youths, you will have LEADERS!”
― Cecilia Chan, How to Grow Your Church Younger and Stronger: The Story of the Kids who Built a World-Class Church

“HOGC is the place where friends become family
and family become friends.”
― Tan Seow How, How to Grow Your Church Younger and Stronger: The Story of the Kids who Built a World-Class Church

“Church is not ‘Where’ but ‘Who’.
Church is not about the Place but the People.
Church is our HOME.
Church is about the People & Relationships.”
― Cecilia Chan, How to Grow Your Church Younger and Stronger: The Story of the Kids who Built a World-Class Church

“Empowered Youths become Producers.
Entertained Youths become Consumers.”
― Cecilia Chan, How to Grow Your Church Younger and Stronger: The Story of the Kids who Built a World-Class Church

“If you don’t captivate youths now for Christ,
something else will come in to carry them captive!”
― Cecilia Chan, How to Grow Your Church Younger and Stronger: The Story of the Kids who Built a World-Class Church

“Once youths are awakened by Christ,
they will be ‘woke’ to the cause of Christ.”
― Cecilia Chan, How to Grow Your Church Younger and Stronger: The Story of the Kids who Built a World-Class Church

“Home is not ‘WHERE’ but ‘WHO’.”
― Cecilia Chan, How to Grow Your Church Younger and Stronger: The Story of the Kids who Built a World-Class Church

“Mere talents does not give glory to God but a humble heart.”
― Mac Canoza

“The fear of offense is a really small price to pay for freedom.”
― Andrena Sawyer

“The Church is Christ’s witness to the world of a loving savior and His redemptive plan for man.”
― John Paul Warren

“Fear of being shamed causes people to put on masks and live in fear and pretense, creating a stronghold of pride. Authentic, transparent leaders encourage people to develop trust through their own honesty and vulnerability. They do not view transparency as weakness, but recognize it as a source of their virtue, power and anointing because power flows through humility.”
― Laura Gagnon, The Book Satan Doesn't Want You To Read

“The first lesson of church plantology is that planting a church should never be our focus. Christ never commanded his disciples to plant churches, because it’s not what He wanted them to focus on. Focusing on the church to be planted leads to church starting, whereas focusing on the Great Commission itself leads to church planting.”
― Peyton Jones, Church Plantology: The Art and Science of Planting Churches

“If you plant churches, discipleship may or may not happen. Yet if you devote yourself to making disciples, churches will inevitably be planted.”
― Peyton Jones, Church Plantology: The Art and Science of Planting Churches

“Eckhart Schnabel quoted Ferdinand Hahn, saying, “The early church was a missionary church. The proclamation, the teaching, all activities of the early Christians had a missionary dimension.”
― Peyton Jones, Church Plantology: The Art and Science of Planting Churches

“We need church reform, but not a new theological system, not a new church denomination, not new interpretations of scriptures, not new prophetic perspectives. We need reformation to return to the true Gospel and live it out in sincere and pure devotion to Christ.”
― Brother Pedro

“We need to confess that we’ve led the church by leaving the present for what’s next instead of breathing in the joy of the connections of the community and beauty of the gospel.”
― Andrew Root, Blair D. Bertrand

“When the image of the church is a speeding bus that will not stop even for its own leaders, we know that the logic of acceleration has captured our imagination.”
― Andrew Root, Blair D. Bertrand

“How baffling you are, oh Church, and yet how I love you! How you have made me suffer, and yet how much I owe you! I would like to see you destroyed, and yet I need your presence. You have given me so much scandal and yet you have made me understand what sanctity is. I have seen nothing in the world more devoted to obscurity, more compromised, more false, and yet I have touched nothing more pure, more generous, more beautiful. How often I have wanted to shut the doors of my soul in your face, and how often I have prayed to die in the safety of your arms.”
― Carlo Carretto

“So many things have gone wrong in our world today that cannot change by our complain but by stepping into our God-ordained responsibility.”
― Benjamin Suulola

“Can the sacredness of Christian gathering be the
healing pool from which the forgotten half of humanity
experiences the Living Water, is reminded they
matter more than the marital places they dwell?”
― Ngina Otiende, Courage: Reflections and Liberation For the Hurting Soul

“Church is a wonderful place but it also at times it has represented the worst of who we are.”
― Nijiama Smalls, The Black Family's Guide to Healing Emotional Wounds

“A place of worship must be the first place a person should experience customer service excellence.”
― Janna Cachola

“Need to unify a fragmented empire? Convert the masses! Want to justify a crusade? Call it holy! Need to legitimise a king? Crown him in the name of God!”
― Rove Monteux

“I’ve never been one to over-romanticize the past. I find greater value in learning from history than I do reminiscing about events or moments I can never get back. (Reclaiming the Black Church: A Call to Restore Leadership, Unity, and Purpose – blog)”
― Carlos Wallace

“Before there was formal education for Black people, the Black church was the schoolhouse. (Reclaiming the Black Church: A Call to Restore Leadership, Unity, and Purpose – blog)”
― Carlos Wallace

“The Black church has always been more than a place of worship—it has been the foundation of our community. (Reclaiming the Black Church: A Call to Restore Leadership, Unity, and Purpose – blog)”
― Carlos Wallace

“Recently, I was convinced that I was so focused on my voice and telling everyone else what I learned that I became a really good virtue signaler. Unintentionally, I was obsessed with knowing all the right things, and I didn’t pay much attention to what I was applying in my life. I was getting too excited when I heard a new bumper-sticker quote from a sermon or catching phrase in a Christian podcast.”
― Steven Kolberg, Reviving Fatherhood: Guiding Every Dad from First Steps to Lasting Legacy

“Compromise in what you let into your body and your home through what you see and hear will eventually land us in a place where we wonder how we even got there. Sound familiar? Whenever you hear about a pastor or someone whose life just blew up and you could never see it coming, it means that at some point in their journey, they did not fight back against the simple yet convincing lies of Satan. Simply put, they did not engage in spiritual warfare. What started out as what seemed like an innocent seed grew and eventually took that person out. Kill the lie; fight back against the darkness when it is in infant form before it overtakes you or your family.”
― Steven Kolberg, Reviving Fatherhood: Guiding Every Dad from First Steps to Lasting Legacy

“God is who makes you a man. Culture does not get to define you as a man, your dad does not get to define you as a man, your friends do not get to define you as a man. Your wife, your mom, your kids, your neighbor, your boss, your coworker, your social media, your humor, your strength, your job, your car, your truck, your hunting expertise, your love for sports, your ability to drink—you name it!—none of these things get to define you as a man. Only one voice may, and that is the voice of your Creator. He created you as a man. Now rise up to the challenge and let him do his work.”
― Steven Kolberg, Reviving Fatherhood: Guiding Every Dad from First Steps to Lasting Legacy

“As I can see and have experienced myself, men seem to have a hard time knowing what it is to grow in their faith or how to do it. I see wives asking their husbands to become the spiritual leaders of the house for her and the kids, and the guy is eager, too, but won’t admit he does not know how.”
― Steven Kolberg, Reviving Fatherhood: Guiding Every Dad from First Steps to Lasting Legacy