Ed Stetzer Quotes

If you're regularly willing to give a critique, but not willing to take one, you're not a leader, you're a cynic.

A church without the broken is a broken church.

To engage people in culture we must remember that holiness is separation from sin, not separation from sinners.

Regrettably, we've made it acceptable to sit in church week after week & do nothing & still call yourself a 'Christian.'

The Christian life is not about finding safety and comfort; it’s about finding yourself in a dangerous place of vulnerable compassion.

Being Missional means actually doing mission right where you are. Missional means adopting the posture of a missionary, learning and adapting to the culture around you while remaining Biblically sound.

You cannot hate a people and reach a people at the same time.

Don't let your church be a cul-de-sac on the Great Commission highway.

Put your 'yes' on the table and let God put it on the map.

Teaching people to become like Jesus, outside of the power of Jesus, dishonors Jesus.

Community is essential when it comes to successfully living out the Christian walk in a day-to-day context. So the math is simple: More community = More disciples.

If we demand things in worship that can't be in every culture, then we're demanding cultural preferences, not biblical.

Barna is correct when he writes, "After fifteen years of diligent digging into the world around me, I have reached several conclusions about the future of the Christian church in America. The central conclusion is that the American church is dying due to lack of strong spiritual leadership. In this time of unprecedented opportunity and plentiful resources, the church is actually losing influence. The primary reason is the lack of leadership. Nothing is more important than leadership."7

I don't think you can love Jesus without loving His wife.

We have to assess: Are we making disciples along the way as we draw people to our churches?

If your church loves the way you do church more than your children, it loves the wrong thing.

Your denomination is not defined by a style. So don’t let style become a point of contention.