Kyle T Fever

“How do you recruit and keep volunteers?” Part of the answer is that we clarify the win. Countless individuals quit working in churches every year”
― Andy Stanley, Seven Practices of Effective Ministry

“to be reminded that human beings are created to worship God also involves being reminded that proper worship entails a certain kind of life. Our identity entails a vocation, a calling, to represent the reign of God. To be made in the image of God is not so much a property of our humanity as it is a task, a mission.”
― Barry D Jones, Dwell: Life with God for the World

“the church, like television, is always educating; the only question is, What is it teaching?”
― Kevin J. Vanhoozer, Faith Speaking Understanding: Performing the Drama of Doctrine

“In one of the periods of history when the church’s relationship to the surrounding cultural environment was at its most hostile, the church grew by a remarkable rate of approximately forty percent per decade.1 According to one Christian apologist writing around the year 200, “Beauty of life causes strangers to join the ranks. . . . We do not preach great things; we live them.”2 Theirs was a life with God for the world. And the world noticed.”
― Barry D Jones, Dwell: Life with God for the World