Ed Stetzer famous quotes

03-28-2025

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

#Giving #Leader #Cynic
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
-- Ed Stetzer

#Christian #Spiritual #Strong
If we demand things in worship that can't be in every culture, then we're demanding cultural preferences, not biblical.
-- Ed Stetzer

#Biblical #Culture #Demand
We have to assess: Are we making disciples along the way as we draw people to our churches?
-- Ed Stetzer

#People #Religion #Church
The Christian life is not about finding safety and comfort; itâ€™s about finding yourself in a dangerous place of vulnerable compassion.
-- Ed Stetzer

#Christian #Compassion #Safety
Don't let your church be a cul-de-sac on the Great Commission highway.
-- Ed Stetzer

#Church #Highways #Great Commission
You cannot hate a people and reach a people at the same time.
-- Ed Stetzer

#Hate #People
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.
-- Ed Stetzer

#Mean #Sound #Missionary
Teaching people to become like Jesus, outside of the power of Jesus, dishonors Jesus.
-- Ed Stetzer

#Jesus #Teaching #People
A church without the broken is a broken church.
-- Ed Stetzer

#Broken #Church
Put your 'yes' on the table and let God put it on the map.
-- Ed Stetzer

#Letting Go #Maps #Tables
To engage people in culture we must remember that holiness is separation from sin, not separation from sinners.
-- Ed Stetzer

#People #Culture #Holiness
If your church loves the way you do church more than your children, it loves the wrong thing.
-- Ed Stetzer

#Children #Church #Way
I don't think you can love Jesus without loving His wife.
-- Ed Stetzer

#Jesus #Thinking #Wife
Regrettably, we've made it acceptable to sit in church week after week & do nothing & still call yourself a 'Christian.'
-- Ed Stetzer

#Christian #Church #Week
Your denomination is not defined by a style. So donâ€™t let style become a point of contention.
-- Ed Stetzer

#Style #Denominations #Contention

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