Transformational Discipleship Quotes

“Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves. Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession. . . . Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.”
― Eric Geiger, Transformational Discipleship: How People Really Grow: How People Really Grow

“We have observed two common yet flawed views that unfortunately impact a church's likelihood to make disciples that are transformed: equating information with discipleship and viewing discipleship merely as behavioral modification. Discipleship is much more than information and much deeper than behavioral modification.”
― Eric Geiger, Transformational Discipleship: How People Really Grow: How People Really Grow

“Angel Mena Garcia with the Assemblies of God in Panama described his ministry this way: "Our obligation as pastors is to teach and train members, so in any context of life they can also share in the evangelism. I don't consider myself a desk pastor; I am a pastor of the street.”
― Eric Geiger, Transformational Discipleship: How People Really Grow: How People Really Grow

“We become like the God/god we behold. We appear like the God/god we admire. We duplicate the God/god we deify. We favor the God/god we follow. We match the God/god we magnify.”
― Eric Geiger, Transformational Discipleship: How People Really Grow: How People Really Grow