chris garner

“There was a time when the church was very powerful.… Wherever the early Christians entered a town the people in power became disturbed and immediately sought to convict them for being “disturbers of the peace” and “outside agitators.” … Things are different now.… If today’s church does not recapture the sacrificial spirit of the early church, it will lose its authenticity, forfeit the loyalty of millions, and be dismissed as an irrelevant social club with no meaning for the twentieth century.”
― Peyton Jones, Church Zero: Raising 1st Century Churches out of the Ashes of the 21st Century Church