Follow Quotes

“• Your belief about church—Church is not a templelike building to attend on Sundays, but a community of revolutionary people who make Jesus the Lord of their whole lives and live to accomplish His mission. If Jesus is the Lord of every day and every part of life, and the church is the people who live for His mission, then church happens every day, everywhere! Church is not limited to a holy-day meeting, led by a holy man; it is mission force of radical people invading every vocation and every nation of the world.”
― Floyd McClung, Follow: A Simple and Profound Call to Live Like Jesus

“Fully devoted followers of Jesus are not isolated individuals who do their own thing.”
― Floyd McClung, Follow: A Simple and Profound Call to Live Like Jesus

“It’s God’s work to bring people to Jesus—our work is to find the ones He is preparing and to work with them.”
― Floyd McClung, Follow: A Simple and Profound Call to Live Like Jesus

“Evangelism is not a ten-letter dirty word. Jesus is our example: He was not a wild-eyed fanatic standing on street corners, screaming at people, “Accept Me or else!” He preached to crowds and became friends with “sinners,” but He did not use a “canned approach,” pressuring each person into a “sinner’s prayer.” I can’t find that approach in the teachings and example of Jesus. Whether it is four laws, five Scriptures, or any other “approach,” sharing Jesus cannot be reduced to a method.”
― Floyd McClung, Follow: A Simple and Profound Call to Live Like Jesus

“We can focus wholeheartedly on only one person at a time—on ourselves or Jesus.”
― Floyd McClung, Follow: A Simple and Profound Call to Live Like Jesus

“Without prayer, our service for God and others may satisfy us for a period of time, but there comes a moment when our souls cry out for more. Do you tend to substitute form for reality, action for relationship, and busyness for communion? Prayer is how you demonstrate that you will no longer substitute doing for being, or religious fervor for spiritual reality. Prayer takes you beyond religion to Jesus Himself. No religious form or symbol can, in the end, be a substitute for a personal encounter with Jesus in the place of private prayer.”
― Floyd McClung, Follow: A Simple and Profound Call to Live Like Jesus

“As we allow the love of Jesus to penetrate our hearts and our minds, we realize that our identity and security come from His love for us and not from our attempts to find meaning in life without Him.”
― Floyd McClung, Follow: A Simple and Profound Call to Live Like Jesus

“The church exists to love and enjoy God by aligning our hearts with His great longing to bring glory to Himself in the whole earth. There are not “missionaries” and “nonmissionaries,” but the obedient or the disobedient.”
― Floyd McClung, Follow: A Simple and Profound Call to Live Like Jesus

“Suffering drives us closer to the heart of God more than almost anything else.”
― Floyd McClung, Follow: A Simple and Profound Call to Live Like Jesus

“The kind of devotion that God delights in comes about when a person finds security in the pure, unselfish love of God. We don’t find our security or our value from the rules we obey or the way we live. But in the love of God, we know that there is nothing we can do to make Him love us more or less—He just loves us!”
― Floyd McClung, Follow: A Simple and Profound Call to Live Like Jesus

“We learn from Jesus’ example while on earth that He did not come to set up “Christian nations.” Jesus modeled being an underking. His kingdom was not married to any political party or country. We learn from this that we must continually go back to Jesus and His example of “subversive resistance” to all that is contrary to His way. We must study His teachings, look deeply at His example, and ask hard questions of ourselves and others about what it means to follow Jesus. This applies to Republicans and Democrats in the United States, Tories and Labour in the UK, any and all political parties and philosophies.”
― Floyd McClung, Follow: A Simple and Profound Call to Live Like Jesus

“Jesus trained a few to reach many.”
― Floyd McClung, Follow: A Simple and Profound Call to Live Like Jesus

“Jesus focused more on obedience than knowledge.”
― Floyd McClung, Follow: A Simple and Profound Call to Live Like Jesus

“If we are not careful, time and effort can be spent maintaining the institutions of church instead of fulfilling the main calling of the church.”
― Floyd McClung, Follow: A Simple and Profound Call to Live Like Jesus

“Make a thought, reap a choice; Make a choice, reap a habit; Make a habit, reap a character; Make a character, reap a destiny.”
― Floyd McClung, Follow: A Simple and Profound Call to Live Like Jesus

“Movements multiply through enlisting multiple generations of disciples.”
― Floyd McClung, Follow: A Simple and Profound Call to Live Like Jesus

“Church buildings and paid church leaders are the greatest hindrance to the growth of a movement.”
― Floyd McClung, Follow: A Simple and Profound Call to Live Like Jesus

“Being close to people of faith who speak openly of their love for Jesus is what leads other people to faith.”
― Floyd McClung, Follow: A Simple and Profound Call to Live Like Jesus

“Followers of Jesus are distinct from the world but are, at the same time, engaged in the world.”
― Floyd McClung, Follow: A Simple and Profound Call to Live Like Jesus

“We disciple the lost to be converted, not convert the lost to be discipled.”
― Floyd McClung, Follow: A Simple and Profound Call to Live Like Jesus

“The Bible presents church as familylike communities of people deeply committed to loving God passionately and loving one another with ruthless honesty—as they empower and encourage one another to live their lives for the poor and the broken.”
― Floyd McClung, Follow: A Simple and Profound Call to Live Like Jesus

“When church takes the edge off being radical and the risk out of the adventure of following Jesus, church has died. It is no longer the irresistible revolution Jesus intended it to be.”
― Floyd McClung, Follow: A Simple and Profound Call to Live Like Jesus

“I choose to follow Jesus. I make the choice to trust God for all I need to obey Him, when I need it.”
― Floyd McClung, Follow: A Simple and Profound Call to Live Like Jesus

“I strengthen myself with this truth: God’s grace makes up for what I lack.”
― Floyd McClung, Follow: A Simple and Profound Call to Live Like Jesus

“Jesus trained people who trained more people—our part is to train trainers.”
― Floyd McClung, Follow: A Simple and Profound Call to Live Like Jesus

“Discipleship is about winning lost people, not training saved people—our part is to disciple those who don’t know Jesus.”
― Floyd McClung, Follow: A Simple and Profound Call to Live Like Jesus

“Obedience is a response to the presence and love of God—our part is to seek His presence and model that obedience out of love to others.”
― Floyd McClung, Follow: A Simple and Profound Call to Live Like Jesus

“Jesus works through counterintuitive discipleship paradoxes—our part is to learn the ways He works and to work His way.”
― Floyd McClung, Follow: A Simple and Profound Call to Live Like Jesus

“Everyone who listens and obeys learns from the Father—hearing is not learning, but obeying is. Our part is to be accountable in discipling relationships.”
― Floyd McClung, Follow: A Simple and Profound Call to Live Like Jesus

“The Holy Spirit will teach the people He brings to Jesus—our part is to get them to the Word of God so the Holy Spirit can teach them in discovery Bible study.”
― Floyd McClung, Follow: A Simple and Profound Call to Live Like Jesus