Deacon-elect Iven

“Knowing your value means owning your success. Owning your success means acknowledging your achievements. By acknowledging achievements you build confidence.”
― Mika Brzezinski, Knowing Your Value: Women, Money, and Getting What You're Worth

“A failure to pray was tantamount to a failure to breathe.”
― Thom S. Rainer, Autopsy of a Deceased Church: 12 Ways to Keep Yours Alive

“Matthew 28:19–20: “Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe everything I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.” The imperative in those verses is “go.” But as we go, there are several sub-commands. We are to make disciples. We are to baptize. We are to teach.”
― Thom S. Rainer, Autopsy of a Deceased Church: 12 Ways to Keep Yours Alive

“A church without a gospel-centered purpose is no longer a church at all.”
― Thom S. Rainer, Autopsy of a Deceased Church: 12 Ways to Keep Yours Alive