Quotes about Engagement

The peace of God is not the peace of stoicism or passivity. It is the most intense activity.

There is no guarantee that starting a small conversation will lead to something larger. But the failure to take any step at all, no matter how small, comes with an ironclad guarantee that we will not be part of helping change happen.

They should be encouraged to bring all of who they are and what they know into each class. By welcoming the whole student into our classes, unfamiliar aspects of who they are and what they care about suddenly come into view. What are the heartfelt questions they struggle with? Are they too scared to acknowledge the hopes and aspirations they harbor for their lives and for this world?

If people don't weigh in, they can't buy in.

One of the most important questions you could ask is: "What is God doing in the here and now?

We are comfortable when we should be concerned. We are passive when we should be active. We are satisfied when we should be dissatisfied.

In fact, one of the things that makes a sermon compelling is that the preacher is worshiping his way through his own sermon.

I am persuaded that the church today has many more consumers than committed participants.

Many, many believers think of their church as a place to attend rather than something with which they are intimately involved.

Many Christians also live inside the church virtually unknown. They slip in and out of the weekly service almost unnoticed. Sure, they will exchange niceties with the people near them, and if they do that, they will learn a few cursory details about one another's lives, but they don't really have a relationship with the people with whom they worship.

Now, if these people are not the focus and object of ministry, then what is ministry?

There is only one way to learn It's through action.