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If church leaders are simply working to give attenders the best experience with the least amount of sacrifice, then why would they do anything more than drop in virtually when they have time?
Collin Hansen • The Great Dechurching
In every crowd there are Diminishers and there are Illuminators. Diminishers make people feel small and unseen. They see other people as things to be used, not as persons to be befriended. They stereotype and ignore.
David Brooks • How to Know a Person
CHAPTER 11 Assumptions
Morgan Harper Nichols • Honest Advent
The Marks of True Conversion: Love for the Word
Owen Strachan • Jonathan Edwards on True Christianity (The Essential Edwards Collection Book 4)
“and i will make you”: a disciple is being changed by christ
Jim Putman • Real-Life Discipleship: Building Churches That Make Disciples
Our task is to display the richness of what Jesus offers his people in believing a gospel that creates a sense of belonging we can experience nowhere but in the church and a behavior that will allow us to live in line with and more fully experience the God who created us.
Collin Hansen • The Great Dechurching
The pastor who neglects personal holiness has forgotten who’s in charge. He believes he is an employee of his flock, so it is not holiness he is chiefly after but the appearance of success, of “having his act together.” When today’s pastors think of being an example to their flocks, they primarily think in terms of appearing well-off materially, ha
... See moreJared C. Wilson , Mike Ayers (Foreword) • The Pastor's Justification
look at how he defined true Christianity and his pastoral guidance on the matter in chapter three.