No Silver Bullets Quotes

“Adults learn best when they see a need for the content and can apply the information to their lives immediately.”
― Daniel Im, No Silver Bullets: Five Small Shifts that will Transform Your Ministry

“The goal for your worship service is never greater attendance; it’s to cultivate a heart of worship and love for God in people’s lives.”
― Daniel Im, No Silver Bullets: Five Small Shifts that will Transform Your Ministry

“Vision without systems thinking ends up painting lovely pictures of the future with no deep understanding of the forces that must be mastered to move from here to there.”
― Daniel Im, No Silver Bullets: Five Small Shifts that will Transform Your Ministry

“instead begin asking, “what kind of me God wants for His mission.”
― Daniel Im, No Silver Bullets: Five Small Shifts that will Transform Your Ministry

“Mission is central to the identity of the church, rather than a peripheral task that it checks off.”
― Daniel Im, No Silver Bullets: Five Small Shifts that will Transform Your Ministry

“So when your church leaves their pet peeves at the foot of the cross and embraces their missionary identity, they are actually embracing their true nature.”
― Daniel Im, No Silver Bullets: Five Small Shifts that will Transform Your Ministry

“By regularly sharing stories from your church community to your non-Christian neighbors, you are helping them see the gospel lived out tangibly.”
― Daniel Im, No Silver Bullets: Five Small Shifts that will Transform Your Ministry

“A healthy church is how this lost world will actually “taste and see that the Lord is good” (Ps. 34:8).”
― Daniel Im, No Silver Bullets: Five Small Shifts that will Transform Your Ministry

“In other words, a congregation that believes in the gospel and lives out its implications together as a community is the way the gospel comes to life.”
― Daniel Im, No Silver Bullets: Five Small Shifts that will Transform Your Ministry

“The early church understood that when they functioned as God intended them to, they would be a living demonstration of the gospel”
― Daniel Im, No Silver Bullets: Five Small Shifts that will Transform Your Ministry

“A healthy church that is making disciples of all nations is supposed to be a foretaste of the kingdom of God.”
― Daniel Im, No Silver Bullets: Five Small Shifts that will Transform Your Ministry

“churches are not called to ultimately point people to themselves. They are called to be signs that point people to the kingdom of God.”
― Daniel Im, No Silver Bullets: Five Small Shifts that will Transform Your Ministry

“The church is to be a sign, instrument, and foretaste of the kingdom of God.”
― Daniel Im, No Silver Bullets: Five Small Shifts that will Transform Your Ministry

“We would be a community where the “one anothers” in Scripture would take on flesh.”
― Daniel Im, No Silver Bullets: Five Small Shifts that will Transform Your Ministry

“If everyone came with the posture to give, rather than the agenda to take, everyone would leave filled, while also getting their needs met.”
― Daniel Im, No Silver Bullets: Five Small Shifts that will Transform Your Ministry

“What if everyone came with the posture to give, rather than the agenda to take?”
― Daniel Im, No Silver Bullets: Five Small Shifts that will Transform Your Ministry

“Until people figure out—if they ever do—how this learning applies to their lives, they’ll have a difficult time retaining what you’re teaching.”
― Daniel Im, No Silver Bullets: Five Small Shifts that will Transform Your Ministry

“Discipleship is not the path of least resistance, since the devil never gives up.”
― Daniel Im, No Silver Bullets: Five Small Shifts that will Transform Your Ministry

“Ministry to the few is as important as ministry to the many.”
― Daniel Im, No Silver Bullets: Five Small Shifts that will Transform Your Ministry

“Our world desperately needs faithful disciples who not only call themselves Christian, but who reflect Christ.”
― Daniel Im, No Silver Bullets: Five Small Shifts that will Transform Your Ministry

“Disciples are formed while moving toward Christ. Discipleship is about direction, not destination.”
― Daniel Im, No Silver Bullets: Five Small Shifts that will Transform Your Ministry

“Disciples are not made when they get to a destination, which in the Silver Bullet Church is the end of their program.”
― Daniel Im, No Silver Bullets: Five Small Shifts that will Transform Your Ministry

“You can create a stronger movement with twelve disciples than with 1,200 consumers.”
― Daniel Im, No Silver Bullets: Five Small Shifts that will Transform Your Ministry

“How do you define the church? Through the lens of God’s mission or your mission?”
― Daniel Im, No Silver Bullets: Five Small Shifts that will Transform Your Ministry

“You can create a stronger movement with twelve disciples than with 1,200 consumers.” —Alan Hirsch”
― Daniel Im, No Silver Bullets: Five Small Shifts that will Transform Your Ministry