Think Orange Quotes

“[Orange] is one of God's favorite colors--- He stuck it right there between red and yellow as the second color in the rainbow. He decorates entire forests with shades of orange every autumn. It shows up in sunrises at the start of the day, sunsets at the end of the day, and in the glow of the moon at the right time of night.”
― Reggie Joiner, Think Orange: Imagine the Impact When Church and Family Collide...

“From the time they hit middle school, they start moving away from home. They are not doing anything wrong; it's just the way they are made. They are becoming independent, and they begin redefining themselves through the eyes other people who are not in their immediate family. The older they get, the more important it is to have other voices in their lies saying the same things but in a different way. ”
― Reggie Joiner, Think Orange: Imagine the Impact When Church and Family Collide...

“They are not working in sync. Working on the same thing at the same time is not as effective as working on the same thing a the same time with the same strategy.”
― Reggie Joiner, Think Orange: Imagine the Impact When Church and Family Collide...

“Church and family are both primary influences designed by God for a purpose and when they work together, they are orange. Both are systems comprised of imperfect people—that’s why God desires to use them as a platform to tell his story of restoration and redemption to the world.”
― Reggie Joiner, Think Orange: Imagine the Impact When Church and Family Collide...

“Our fights should really be for the mission of the church and the mission of the family instead of trying to have bigger churches or better families. When it comes to entities that god has created specifically to make disciples and accomplish His mission (of influencing a generation to have a stronger, deeper, and more authentic relationship with God), there is the church...the family...and nothing else.”
― Reggie Joiner, Think Orange: Imagine the Impact When Church and Family Collide...

“Church has believed that parents probably wont' assume responsibility for their own children's growth, so they have tried to become a parent substitute. This in turn ha s fostered parents to adopt a "drop-off" mentality. Maybe the greatest gift a church can give parents is the confidence and courage to do what God has wired them to do.”
― Reggie Joiner, Think Orange: Imagine the Impact When Church and Family Collide...

“Technically, anything that a ministry does for the family could be called family ministry but that's actually part of the problem. There is a difference between doing something FOR the family and doing something WITH the family. Family ministry should not be another program you add to your list of programs. It should develop the process that drives how both the church and the home combine their effort to influence the next generation in their faith and character. If you really believe that nothing is more important than someone's relationship with God, it makes sense to combine the influences of the home and church.”
― Reggie Joiner, Think Orange: Imagine the Impact When Church and Family Collide...

“Jesus said, " I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to myself," knowing that the nature of a forgiving Christ on the cross would compel people to follow Him. As long as the church remains an effective platform for God's light to reveal to the world the sacrifice Jesu samde, the church will be anturally irresistible. Light is inherently inviting-- just think of a porch light left on late into the night. Light communicates comfort, warmth, and healing. It gives direction and hope so we can see better and understand more fully. Most people I meet are looking for light. The problem is that the emphasis is of too many churches has gradually shifted and changed.”
― Reggie Joiner, Think Orange: Imagine the Impact When Church and Family Collide...

“every parent will leave a personal legacy (though not all parents will leave behind an inheritance). what i give to my children or what i do for my children is not as important as what i leave in them. ”
― Reggie Joiner, Think Orange: Imagine the Impact When Church and Family Collide...

“It is important to note that the lampstand in the tabernacle did not cast a broad light, illuminating everything in the tabernacle; the focus of its beam was specifically on the bread of presence. Likewise, the church is not called to illuminate everything -- its light should be concentrated on showing others who God is. For church leaders, our jobs are clear: we have to keep the wicks trimmed, the light burning, and the lampstand in its proper place. if the light begins to dim, we must immediately move into action. God's intention is for the church to be placed strategically in culture in order to show Himself to the world. Anytime the church becomes ineffective in its role to illuminate Christ, it must rekindle and reinvent itself around its core purpose.”
― Reggie Joiner, Think Orange: Imagine the Impact When Church and Family Collide...

“The lampstand was position strategically to do one things: cast its light on the table and on the bread that represented God's provision and presence. For generations the lampstand of the tabernacle stood to highlight the object that best represented God's goodness and provision, the same object that Jesus would one day use to symbolize His own body. (Jesus compares church to a lampstand in Revelation- a strong reminder of the church's responsibility). Everything about these churches 0 their teaching, practices, and work-- was challenged for one reason in Revelation: They were losing their effectiveness as God's light to their communities.”
― Reggie Joiner, Think Orange: Imagine the Impact When Church and Family Collide...

“The first priority of the family should be to establish a quality of relationship with each other that is a reflection of an authentic relationship with God. That may have been what Paul was aiming at when he wrote to the church in Ephesians 5 and 6 about the family.”
― Reggie Joiner, Think Orange: Imagine the Impact When Church and Family Collide...

“The only thing that separates a living faith from a ritualistic orthodoxy is one word, one idea, one compelling force: Love.”
― Reggie Joiner, Think Orange: Imagine the Impact When Church and Family Collide...

“Most parents can’t give their children a lavish inheritance, but every parent will leave a personal legacy.”
― Reggie Joiner, Think Orange: Imagine the Impact When Church and Family Collide...

“You can’t manage people to be on the same page; you have to live together on the same page.”
― Reggie Joiner, Think Orange: Imagine the Impact When Church and Family Collide...