Neil Wilson

“The churches were purposeless. They were engaged in an activity called, “This is the way we’ve always done it.”
― Thom S. Rainer, Autopsy of a Deceased Church: 12 Ways to Keep Yours Alive

“You can move a leader’s feet by force, or you can move their hearts by influence and inspiration.”
― Ed Stetzer, Transformational Groups: Creating a New Scorecard for Groups

“Have you ever wondered what it feels like to have a love for the lost? This is a term we use as part of our Christian jargon. Many believers search their hearts in condemnation, looking for the arrival of some feeling of benevolence that will propel them into bold evangelism. It will never happen. It is impossible to love “the lost”. You can’t feel deeply for an abstraction or a concept. You would find it impossible to love deeply an unfamiliar individual portrayed in a photograph, let alone a nation or a race or something as vague as “all lost people”.

Don’t wait for a feeling or love in order to share Christ with a stranger. You already love your heavenly Father, and you know that this stranger is created by Him, but separated from Him, so take those first steps in evangelism because you love God. It is not primarily out of compassion for humanity that we share our faith or pray for the lost; it is first of all, love for God.”
― John Piper

“Jesus did not come to strike a balance between grace and truth. He brought the full measure of both... It's easy to create an all-truth church model. It may be even easier to create an all-grace model, but Jesus didn't leave either option on the table.”
― Andy Stanley, Deep and Wide: Creating Churches Unchurched People Love to Attend