Ryan Clegg

“Whatever you’re good at, do it well for the glory of God, and do it somewhere strategic for the mission of God.”
― J. D. Greear, Gaining By Losing: Why the Future Belongs to Churches that Send

“The gospel alone produces the passion that sustains the mission. Programs and institutions can be useful servants of passion, but never its sustenance. The gospel is its sustenance.”
― J.D. Greear, Gaining By Losing: Why the Future Belongs to Churches that Send

“Luther believed that every believer must discover how he or she is gifted by God to develop his world, because this is in large part how followers of Christ fulfill their callings. Thus, if God has given you “secular” skills — in business, banking, painting, landscaping, medicine, art, law, or the like — understand that there is nothing second-class about them. God uses your vocation to care for his world through you. As you work, you are being used by God in his original mission.”
― J.D. Greear, Gaining By Losing: Why the Future Belongs to Churches that Send

“There comes a point in everybody’s life when you realize the stakes have suddenly changed. The carefree ride of your life slams into a stone wall; all those years of merely bouncing along, life taking you where you want to go, abruptly end.”
― James Patterson, 1st to Die