Transformational Groups Quotes

“You can move a leader’s feet by force, or you can move their hearts by influence and inspiration.”
― Ed Stetzer, Transformational Groups: Creating a New Scorecard for Groups

“Contrary to Western evangelicalism’s obsession with the individual, discipleship is and always was a group project. No one in the New Testament followed independent of other followers. —Steve Murrell, Wikichurch”
― Ed Stetzer, Transformational Groups: Creating a New Scorecard for Groups

“Therefore, it is vital for churches to provide a clear target explaining the attitudes and behaviors of a disciple; you must have a clear definition of disciple.”
― Ed Stetzer, Transformational Groups: Creating a New Scorecard for Groups

“At the end of the day, in spite of the risks, do life with your people. They need to see you struggle and process your day-to-day walk with Christ. They need to see you desire community, and you need to see transformation take place among your community.”
― Ed Stetzer, Transformational Groups: Creating a New Scorecard for Groups

“From a leadership perspective the biblical role of staff members is to “equip the saints.” But there should be a place where staff can practice “being a saint.”
― Ed Stetzer, Transformational Groups: Creating a New Scorecard for Groups

“Community is essential when it comes to successfully living out the Christian walk in a day-to-day context. So the math is simple: More community = More disciples Understanding the nature of groups helps you”
― Ed Stetzer, Transformational Groups: Creating a New Scorecard for Groups

“Too often we attempt to teach people to swim in a classroom.” If you have ever taken swimming lessons, you immediately get the importance of getting in the water and practicing under the watchful eye of a swimming rabbi. Jesus invited the original twelve to go swimming with Him.”
― Ed Stetzer, Transformational Groups: Creating a New Scorecard for Groups

“The health, long-term mission, and viability of the church are not going to be determined by those who gather on Sunday morning. The future of the church will be determined by the depth of its disciples.”
― Ed Stetzer, Transformational Groups: Creating a New Scorecard for Groups

“Church leaders—including pastoral staff, elders, deacons, and leadership teams—must see community as a biblical nonnegotiable, an essential for transformation, a necessity for building lives that stand the test of time.”
― Ed Stetzer, Transformational Groups: Creating a New Scorecard for Groups

“Just as the mighty sequoia would topple without a community of supporting trees, believers who seek transformation apart from a Christian community are vulnerable to spiritually topple in the winds of adversity.”
― Ed Stetzer, Transformational Groups: Creating a New Scorecard for Groups

“Belief followed by strategy and culture moves people to community.”
― Ed Stetzer, Transformational Groups: Creating a New Scorecard for Groups

“We need to stop presenting community as just another option for the religious consumer and start presenting it as God’s will for everyone. It should be seen as the reality of those within the church and the refuge for those without.”
― Ed Stetzer, Transformational Groups: Creating a New Scorecard for Groups

“Growth happens in community because the Bible places community as a critical step of obedience for the Christ follower. So the Christ follower outside of community is living in disobedience.”
― Ed Stetzer, Transformational Groups: Creating a New Scorecard for Groups

“The idea that spiritual growth begins with discomfort is a fact many church members and church leaders have been unwilling or unable to embrace.”
― Ed Stetzer, Transformational Groups: Creating a New Scorecard for Groups