Spent Matches Quotes

“The church is a movement of people, not an organization that lives in a box on the corner.”
― Roy Moran, Spent Matches: Igniting the Signal Fire for the Spiritually Dissatisfied

“Both Jesus and Paul practiced form following function. The biblical function of the mission, multiplicative disciple-making, provided the direction and the form of the churches that followed.

The seemed to know that if you make disciple-making disciples, the result is always a biblically functioning community--Jesus' church.”
― Roy Moran, Spent Matches: Igniting the Signal Fire for the Spiritually Dissatisfied

“Instead of figuring out how to disciple--teaching to identify with Jesus and to obey Him--we drifted toward converting people to a set of propositions and then attempting to get them to understand that Jesus wants to be more than their Savior.”
― Roy Moran, Spent Matches: Igniting the Signal Fire for the Spiritually Dissatisfied

“Jesus' hope was that it would be normal for His followers to make disciples as they lived out a dangerous message that would divide families and heal the brokenhearted, challenge the well off, and encourage the impoverished, transform the oppressors and bring freedom to the oppressed. To fail to make disciples would indicate followers weren't connected to Jesus and the heart of his mission (John 15:8).”
― Roy Moran, Spent Matches: Igniting the Signal Fire for the Spiritually Dissatisfied