Chris Kelley

“Changes that appear turbulent to organizations that rely heavily on planning may appear normal to, even welcomed by, those who prefer a more visionary or learning approach. Put more boldly, if you have no vision but only formal plans, then every unpredicted change in the environment makes you feel like the sky is falling. —Henry Mintzberg”
― Will Mancini, Church Unique: How Missional Leaders Cast Vision, Capture Culture, and Create Movement

“Because the gospel is news, good news… it is to be announced; that is what one does with news. The essential heraldic element in preaching is bound up with the fact that the core message is not a code of ethics to be debated, still less a list of aphorisms to be admired and pondered, and certainly not a systematic theology to be outlined and schematized. Though it properly grounds ethics, aphorisms, and systematics, it is none of these three: it is news, good news, and therefore must be publicly announced”
― Timothy Keller, Center Church: Doing Balanced, Gospel-Centered Ministry in Your City

“A big part of a pastor’s job is to keep the church swimming upstream, because the natural current takes us to a place of inward focus.”
― Dave Browning, Deliberate Simplicity: How the Church Does More by Doing Less

“First, a unique vision must “ooze” from the leader’s life as well as the church’s leadership community. Second, this vision must create a stunningly unique culture inside the church that is inclined and motivated to penetrate the culture outside the church. In other words, reaching the surrounding community should be innate, driven by the church’s DNA rather than programming.”
― Will Mancini, Church Unique: How Missional Leaders Cast Vision, Capture Culture, and Create Movement