Insourcing Quotes

“Small Groups LOLMD (Journey) Groups Knowledge transfer Life transformation Leader prepares Everyone prepares Low commitment, low cost High commitment, high cost Members sign up Leader selects members Teach, Pray, Care, Share Truth, Equipping, Accountability, Mission, Supplication Size: 8 – 25 Size: 4 – 10 Produces community Produces mature and equipped followers of Christ Non-Christians and Christians Christians Mixed-gender group Men with men Women with women Leader is a teacher Leader is a disciple, coach, mentor Missional hope Missional experience Fellowship Leader development”
― Anonymous, Insourcing: Bringing Discipleship Back to the Local Church

“Truth: what God has revealed for his people to know, understand, and obey. Equipping: massaging God’s truth into life so that it becomes understandable and usable. Accountability: asking the hard questions to encourage living fully for Christ. Mission: engaging with the lost world in order to impart the gospel through word and deed. Supplication: engaging in conversation with God to express dependence on him.”
― Anonymous, Insourcing: Bringing Discipleship Back to the Local Church

“The word curriculum originated in the 1600s as a derivative of the Latin word for “course,” specifically a course for a horse or chariot race. That’s a far cry from the stuffy academic flavor the word carries today. Before it was used in formal education, curriculum referred to the necessary stages of development children go through on their way to adulthood. And before it evolved into a rigid syllabus of assignments and tests, a curriculum was a series of tasks and experiences designed to take someone on a journey toward maturity.”
― Anonymous, Insourcing: Bringing Discipleship Back to the Local Church

“Life-on-life missional discipleship is laboring in the lives of a few with the intention of imparting one’s life, the gospel, and God’s Word in such a way as to see them become mature and equipped followers of Christ, committed to doing the same in the lives of others.”
― Anonymous, Insourcing: Bringing Discipleship Back to the Local Church

“If you are a pastor or a leader, and you don’t have a dream, it’s time to get alone and ask God for one. Leaders need dreams.”
― Zondervan Publishing, Insourcing: Bringing Discipleship Back to the Local Church

“What if the pastoral/attractional model of church produced an army of Christians who are consumeristic, shallow, and bland? And what if the influential model of church cranked out wild-eyed activists who do loving acts without the love that springs from spiritual maturity? What if the church marched on, resolutely doing many of the right things, but without being the right people?”
― Zondervan Publishing, Insourcing: Bringing Discipleship Back to the Local Church