Innovating Discipleship Quotes

“Spiritual formation doesn’t happen in a program at the church. It happens by living your life.”
― Will Mancini, Innovating Discipleship: Four Paths to Real Discipleship Results

“Input results (attendance and giving) by themselves do not validate the accomplishment of the church’s mission.”
― Will Mancini, Innovating Discipleship: Four Paths to Real Discipleship Results

“Does God desire a radical transformation in my heart or can I enjoy great worship and teaching once a week and call it good?”
― Will Mancini, Innovating Discipleship: Four Paths to Real Discipleship Results

“The bottom line is that input results are not the church’s bottom line. Disciples who obey Jesus are the church’s only genuine product.”
― Will Mancini, Innovating Discipleship: Four Paths to Real Discipleship Results

“Despite the importance of input results, they do not provide a necessarily positive indicator of mission achievement. More attendance and more giving don’t necessarily mean more and stronger disciples.”
― Will Mancini, Innovating Discipleship: Four Paths to Real Discipleship Results

“Why is all of our innovation in ministry about technology and not about discipleship?”
― Will Mancini, Innovating Discipleship: Four Paths to Real Discipleship Results

“For now, we will end the chapter with this conclusion statement: When a pastor thinks about a better future for the church, the default desire is more of the same thing (usually attendance) the same way (existing ministry model). We will call this “same thing – same way,” thinking for short.”
― Will Mancini, Innovating Discipleship: Four Paths to Real Discipleship Results

“So how do we open our mind’s eye to consider new alternatives? That’s what the rest of INNOVATING DISCIPLESHIP is about.”
― Will Mancini, Innovating Discipleship: Four Paths to Real Discipleship Results

“Pastors make “automatic” decisions without “active consideration” of “viable alternatives.”
― Will Mancini, Innovating Discipleship: Four Paths to Real Discipleship Results

“the hidden vision switch reveals two default mindsets in most conversations about church vision: Default Mindset #1: More attendance is our primary desired result. Default Mindset #2: Our ministry model doesn’t need to change.”
― Will Mancini, Innovating Discipleship: Four Paths to Real Discipleship Results

“We don’t naturally look for fundamentally new, different, or better results, but more of the same of what we commonly measure.”
― Will Mancini, Innovating Discipleship: Four Paths to Real Discipleship Results

“I have discovered a hidden vision switch with a default position in the minds of church leaders. But this default setting is not just about missing out on a nifty feature. It’s about a fundamental mode of thinking that’s limiting us.”
― Will Mancini, Innovating Discipleship: Four Paths to Real Discipleship Results

“Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination, do not become the slave of your model - Vincent Van Gogh”
― Will Mancini, Innovating Discipleship: Four Paths to Real Discipleship Results

“to equip you as God’s co-creator. After all, he designed you to help design a better future.”
― Will Mancini, Innovating Discipleship: Four Paths to Real Discipleship Results

“First, INNOVATING DISCIPLESHIP is an annoying alarm clock that will aggravate you (just a little). It’s time to wake up to the photocopied patterns of ministry that are holding the mission of discipleship back.”
― Will Mancini, Innovating Discipleship: Four Paths to Real Discipleship Results

“Not being able, as times change, to change under the Holy Spirit is ugly. - Francis Schaeffer”
― Will Mancini, Innovating Discipleship: Four Paths to Real Discipleship Results

“As you “live out” your vision, the next step is continuous innovation for the sake of your unchanging mission and timeless values.”
― Will Mancini, Innovating Discipleship: Four Paths to Real Discipleship Results

“a tool you can read in an hour, but change your leadership forever.”
― Will Mancini, Innovating Discipleship: Four Paths to Real Discipleship Results

“Disciples who obey Jesus are the church’s only genuine product.”
― Will Mancini, Innovating Discipleship: Four Paths to Real Discipleship Results

“Instead of counting Christians, we need to weigh them. - Dallas Willard”
― Will Mancini, Innovating Discipleship: Four Paths to Real Discipleship Results

“Is our vision to have more of the same results or some new result?”
― Will Mancini, Innovating Discipleship: Four Paths to Real Discipleship Results

“One question I always enjoy asking church leaders is “How do you want your church to be different two years from now?”
― Will Mancini, Innovating Discipleship: Four Paths to Real Discipleship Results

“Innovation must be anchored in clarity first.”
― Will Mancini, Innovating Discipleship: Four Paths to Real Discipleship Results

“Scripture reveals a God who expects a return on investment. But experience shows that too many leaders are satisfied with input results only.”
― Will Mancini, Innovating Discipleship: Four Paths to Real Discipleship Results