The Habits of Highly Effective Churches Quotes

“until a people’s most pressing needs are addressed they will remain oblivious to other information and opportunities related to other needs, no matter how absolutely important they are. Family”
― George Barna, The Habits of Highly Effective Churches: Being Strategic in Your God-Given Ministry

“This problem is pervasive within the community of believers: Christians don’t know the content of their faith and show little concern about their ignorance. This”
― George Barna, The Habits of Highly Effective Churches: Being Strategic in Your God-Given Ministry

“We have wandered so far from fundamental spiritual knowledge in our culture that literally tens of millions of people—many of whom have long-term ties with the Christian church—have no clue how to even describe a true spiritual experience.”
― George Barna, The Habits of Highly Effective Churches: Being Strategic in Your God-Given Ministry

“Many attenders, lacking any understanding about the content or purposes of worship, assume that the routines and rituals that occur in worship services constitute the substance of worship. Consequently,”
― George Barna, The Habits of Highly Effective Churches: Being Strategic in Your God-Given Ministry

“Half of all regular church-going adults admit that they have not experienced God’s presence at any time during the past year. The younger the adult, the more likely they are to state that God is a distant, impersonal reality for them. And even among those who say God’s presence was evident to them, most of them say that happened only one or two times throughout the course of the year.”
― George Barna, The Habits of Highly Effective Churches: Being Strategic in Your God-Given Ministry

“A recurrent theme throughout the history of the Church is that of creating a loving, caring community. The story of the Early Church recounted in Acts emphasizes the importance of relationships among believers. Jesus’ ministry was a model of commitment to fellow believers: He did everything with the family of faith; He ate, talked, traveled and ministered with His disciples. He did more than simply talk about love for others; Jesus personally modeled it and consistently arranged situations and opportunities for His faith-circle to deepen and demonstrate their love for each other.”
― George Barna, The Habits of Highly Effective Churches: Being Strategic in Your God-Given Ministry

“Consequently, if the church is going to leave a permanent mark on the community through a growing body of changed lives, it must constantly expand its leadership capacity, which entails both an increased number of leaders and an enhanced quality of leaders. Also,”
― George Barna, The Habits of Highly Effective Churches: Being Strategic in Your God-Given Ministry