Some phrases that caught my attention during my time in Nashville with NGLC
Discipleship is apprenticeship – V
They are not the enemy. You can shoot me, but I am going to
give them food. – Karen
We get very passionate against one another sometimes. – V
Be a lover of people – Jim O’Niel
“Efficiency is really bad strategy.” - V
“..Put up a tent of mediocre non fruit.” –V
“Christ is everything or He is nothing…..Christ is ALL, not
first.”- V
“We will make mistakes in the process of moving towards one
another.” - V
“I will not spend the second half of my life making
excuses….. I will make mistakes towards obedience.” – V
“Put down the burden of that thing you invented by
yourself.” – V
“The purpose of the fifty was to hear the one” – V
“It’s not the unity of collectiveness, but the unity of the
Spirit. We do know how to do that.” – V
“Credibility comes from being in motion, not when you have
arrived.” - V
Don’t let ministry become your idol. It takes away the God
given power and capacity to fully engage in your ministry.
American’s are like Jonah – resistant to reaching Muslims. –
Dave Ray
“At what time should you stop fellowshipping with yourself?”
- V
Sometimes God chooses to speak to us through unjust jerks. –
Dave Ray
The struggles, pains caused by people is used as an
incubator to reveal to you, YOU. – Al Henson
“On my best day, I am a beautiful mess”
He left my heart here, so that my heart may be with the
nations. – Al Henson
20 mile radius – 136 languages. Lighthouse Christian
Fellowship – Al Henson
I really don’t like Church people. Be honest, most of you
don’t. What is it about the fact that we get together in a Church that makes us go
weird. – Mike Baer
“I asked, how do I connect with lost people. The Lord said,
become like them.” – Mike Baer
I got to meet lost people in THEIR TURF. – Mike Baer
“…When it has a global flavor, it usually has the mark of
God on it” – Mike Baer
Obedience is the coin of the Kingdom – Mike Baer
The great thing about reading books is getting mentored by
people I haven’t even met… people who are even dead. But it’s also good to have
living mentors. – Jim Jeffrey
Ask a question to listen. The best leaders are the best
listeners and constantly ask questions. And when they speak, it really matters.
– Jim Jeffrey
I think cancer burned all the junk in me that doesn’t
matter… -John Bonar
I don’t create disciples, my job is to create and engineer
an environment where God will grow them. – John Bonar
Key lessons are learned by watching behind the wall. – John
Bonar
“I don’t want to leave a place where everyday I am dependent
on my God, because I can’t create that place.”
You are beat up. That is a sign that you are doing the right
thing. – John Bonar
Just as Harriet Tubman …”We are leading spiritual slaves to
freedom. “
Even if you don’t believe, you belong. – John Bonar (his
church philosophy)
I belonging before I believed. – Indian believer at John
Bonar’s church
It is an ongoing dialogue between a discerning community and
the Spirit of God – V
God’s blessings got in the way of me and God – Mariya
Truth without love is only noise – Fran Pratt
