Chris Kelley

“Only in the gospel can we be both enormously bold and utterly sensitive and humble, for we are simul justus et peccator, both perfect and sinner!”
― Timothy Keller, Center Church: Doing Balanced, Gospel-Centered Ministry in Your City

“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

“It’s interesting how people try to redefine God to their liking. They bring him down to their level so they can understand him, then they reject him because he is too much like them.”
― Judah Smith, Jesus Is ______: Find a New Way to Be Human

“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