Sign in with Facebook
Church Zero Quotes
Church Zero: Raising 1st Century Churches out of the Ashes of the 21st Century Church
by
Peyton Jones348 ratings, 3.89 average rating, 45 reviews
Church Zero Quotes
Showing 1-5 of 5
“duties. Cooking duty. Dead guy duty. Maybe it’s time for me to get a better duty. Nacho Libre, Nacho Libre”
― Church Zero: Raising 1st Century Churches out of the Ashes of the 21st Century Church
― Church Zero: Raising 1st Century Churches out of the Ashes of the 21st Century Church
“If people see just the pastor-only model, they mistake Jesus’s leg for the whole body. But when all five roles operate, the church’s other three limbs will begin to be built up and attain Christ’s stature in the world.”
― Church Zero: Raising 1st Century Churches out of the Ashes of the 21st Century Church
― Church Zero: Raising 1st Century Churches out of the Ashes of the 21st Century Church
“David Garrison challenged: If we want to be on mission with God we simply must pause long enough to understand how God is on mission. Only then can we know with some degree of certainty that we are aligned as his instruments and not misaligned as his obstacles.2”
― Church Zero: Raising 1st Century Churches out of the Ashes of the 21st Century Church
― Church Zero: Raising 1st Century Churches out of the Ashes of the 21st Century Church
“True, there are those who say, as I once believed, that the roles of apostle and prophet faded into oblivion upon the completion of Scripture. In the modern church, however, we’ve managed to exterminate teacher and evangelist as well so that we’re left with the pastor-only model. What if, as a result of amputating these roles, the church were a dismembered quadriplegic? Would that explain why it isn’t moving? Would it shed light on why the church inchworms pathetically on its mission like a fat little grub?”
― Church Zero: Raising 1st Century Churches out of the Ashes of the 21st Century Church
― Church Zero: Raising 1st Century Churches out of the Ashes of the 21st Century Church
“There was a time when the church was very powerful.… Wherever the early Christians entered a town the people in power became disturbed and immediately sought to convict them for being “disturbers of the peace” and “outside agitators.” … Things are different now.… If today’s church does not recapture the sacrificial spirit of the early church, it will lose its authenticity, forfeit the loyalty of millions, and be dismissed as an irrelevant social club with no meaning for the twentieth century.”
― Church Zero: Raising 1st Century Churches out of the Ashes of the 21st Century Church
― Church Zero: Raising 1st Century Churches out of the Ashes of the 21st Century Church
