“We don’t have A “missional” problem. We Have A discipleship Problem.”
― Building a Discipling Culture
― Building a Discipling Culture
“ORGANIC CHURCH
The term organic church does not refer to a particular model of church. (We believe that no perfect model exists.) Instead, we believe that the New Testament vision of church is organic. An organic church is a living, breathing, dynamic, mutually participatory, every-member-functioning, Christ-centered, communal expression of the body of Christ.”
― Pagan Christianity?: Exploring the Roots of Our Church Practices
The term organic church does not refer to a particular model of church. (We believe that no perfect model exists.) Instead, we believe that the New Testament vision of church is organic. An organic church is a living, breathing, dynamic, mutually participatory, every-member-functioning, Christ-centered, communal expression of the body of Christ.”
― Pagan Christianity?: Exploring the Roots of Our Church Practices
“A belief, no matter how sincere, if not reflected in reality isn’t a belief; it’s a delusion.”
― Not a Fan: Becoming a Completely Committed Follower of Jesus
― Not a Fan: Becoming a Completely Committed Follower of Jesus
“Worship,” Tozer explained, “is to feel in your heart and express in some appropriate manner a humbling but delightful sense of admiring awe and astonished wonder and overpowering love in the presence of that most ancient Mystery, that majesty which philosophers call the First Cause but which we call Our Father Which Art in Heaven.”
― The Purpose of Man: Designed to Worship
― The Purpose of Man: Designed to Worship
“We don’t want people to understand forgiveness or prayer or mission or justice only intellectually. We want people who can forgive, who can hear and respond to God, who actually know Him. We want people who have hearts that break for our world and the people in it and do something about it. We want the kind of people in our communities who resemble the people we see in Scripture.”
― Building a Discipling Culture
― Building a Discipling Culture
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