Church Unique Quotes

“Leaders constantly bring the most important things to light: current reality and future possibility, what God says about it and what we need to do about it.”
― Will Mancini, Church Unique: How Missional Leaders Cast Vision, Capture Culture, and Create Movement

“Just like the person of Jesus, the local church as the body of Christ must understand what it is created and called to do.”
― Will Mancini, Church Unique: How Missional Leaders Cast Vision, Capture Culture, and Create Movement

“The poet Archilochus wrote, “The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.” In Good to Great, Collins demonstrates that great organizations live and breathe from a hedgehog concept. They are ruthlessly clear about the one thing at which they can be the best in the world. Organizations that act like foxes, chasing after too much too often, never achieve a singular focus. They stay stuck being “good.”4”
― Will Mancini, Church Unique: How Missional Leaders Cast Vision, Capture Culture, and Create Movement

“Charisma is not vision. It is a vehicle to deliver the vision. The under-shepherd is not a substitute for the Good Shepherd.”
― Will Mancini, Church Unique: How Missional Leaders Cast Vision, Capture Culture, and Create Movement

“This simple instance illustrates a silent epidemic at work all around us. The reality is that most people don ’t think; they only rearrange their prejudices. Real thinking can be disruptive to the status quo and requires a great deal of courage.”
― Will Mancini, Church Unique: How Missional Leaders Cast Vision, Capture Culture, and Create Movement

“organic, zeroed in, and extravagant. When leaders start thinking clearly, engaging locally, focusing redemptively, and risking boldly, their church becomes an unstoppable force and an irresistible influence.”
― Will Mancini, Church Unique: How Missional Leaders Cast Vision, Capture Culture, and Create Movement

“So in light of God’s grand vision already recorded in Scripture, any smaller vision of a better intermediate future is not new at all. It is, in a sense, already His. Therefore, our visions of a better future come from Him as orchestrated steppingstones to get us to His ultimate one.”
― Will Mancini, Church Unique: How Missional Leaders Cast Vision, Capture Culture, and Create Movement

“When it comes to clarity, new levels bring new devils. The higher the leader goes, the harder the leader must work to stay clear.”
― Will Mancini, Church Unique: How Missional Leaders Cast Vision, Capture Culture, and Create Movement

“Every leader needs to etch some things in granite (never-change core) and write some things in sand (must -change methods).”
― Will Mancini, Church Unique: How Missional Leaders Cast Vision, Capture Culture, and Create Movement

“Church is not something you do or a place you go to, but what you are.”
― Will Mancini, Church Unique: How Missional Leaders Cast Vision, Capture Culture, and Create Movement

“Presumption prevents the breakthrough to self-knowledge that would otherwise open the door to new levels of leadership.”
― Will Mancini, Church Unique: How Missional Leaders Cast Vision, Capture Culture, and Create Movement

“In other words, nourishing internal culture must precede expanding outside influence. Real change is inside-out.”
― Will Mancini, Church Unique: How Missional Leaders Cast Vision, Capture Culture, and Create Movement

“Changes that appear turbulent to organizations that rely heavily on planning may appear normal to, even welcomed by, those who prefer a more visionary or learning approach. Put more boldly, if you have no vision but only formal plans, then every unpredicted change in the environment makes you feel like the sky is falling. —Henry Mintzberg”
― Will Mancini, Church Unique: How Missional Leaders Cast Vision, Capture Culture, and Create Movement

“First, a unique vision must “ooze” from the leader’s life as well as the church’s leadership community. Second, this vision must create a stunningly unique culture inside the church that is inclined and motivated to penetrate the culture outside the church. In other words, reaching the surrounding community should be innate, driven by the church’s DNA rather than programming.”
― Will Mancini, Church Unique: How Missional Leaders Cast Vision, Capture Culture, and Create Movement