Quotes about Growth

Are we living in a culture that is so infatuated with change that we have forgotten that the church is about transformation, not mere change?

All the traditional reasons put forth for "needing" a church building collapse under careful scrutiny. We so easily forget that the early Christians turned the world upside down without them (see Acts 17:6). They grew rapidly for three hundred years without the help (or hindrance) of church buildings.

Learning to preach is difficult because preaching is difficult.

If there is a disease in the preaching that I hear most often, it's not that what the minister says is wrong. It's that it is just too small.

The surest way to stop growing is to stop reading.

Just because I'm a wren doesn't mean I can't preach an eagle message. Of course I can. Is that a lack of integrity if I preach something bigger than I can even feel, if I preach a message that I haven't even grown to? That's not a lack of integrity. That's accepting the call. That's what it is because there's too much at stake to do otherwise.

The top experts in the world are ardent students. The day you stop learning, you're definitely not an expert.

We can only love others as much as we love ourselves.

In my experience, self-hatred is the dominant malaise crippling Christians and stifling their growth in the Holy Spirit.

It is for the inconsistent, unsteady disciples whose cheese is falling off their cracker.

One of life's greatest paradoxes is that it's in the crucible of pain and suffering that we become tender.

If we are going to keep on growing, we must keep on risking failure throughout our lives. When