“You know why some churches die? Some churches die because their members keep looking for more healthy members to help them grow their church. Those who are healthy do not need a doctor. Growing churches are made up of crowds who follow Jesus into their neighbourhoods and look for more people who need Jesus as much as they do.” –Jefferson Vann
“What were these followers doing? They were not being trained as apostolic evangelists. But they found a way to be fishers of people also. Notice that these believers scoured the countryside, looking for broken people for Jesus to fix.” –Jefferson Vann
“…their commitment to follow Christ was not being measured by their own sense of ability or qualification. They had determined to follow Christ and live out his teaching. That meant putting his will first.” -Jefferson Vann
“Following Jesus means being willing to keep repenting and allowing Jesus to change us into the kind of people that he wants. Christianity is not so much an club we are recruited into as a life career we are in training for. ” -Jefferson Vann
“Either of them could have said, “No, Jesus, I’m comfortable with my spiritual gift of fisherman, so I am just going to stay on my boat and be a good Christian here.” Neither of them said that, and neither of us should. ” –Jefferson Vann
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