George Barna famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

It is not a churchâ€™s job to spiritually develop your children. Scripturally, it is the job of the parents. The church body is supposed to support parents in raising children, not replace them.
-- George Barna

#Jobs #Children #Support
Leadership is the process of motivating, mobilizing, resourcing, and directing people to passionately and strategically pursue a vision from God that a group jointly embraces.
-- George Barna

#People #Vision #Groups
If you want to have a lasting influence upon the world, you must invest in people's lives; and if you want to maximize that investment, then you must invest in those people while they are young.
-- George Barna

#People #World #Want
These figures emphasize how soft people's commitment to God is. Americans are willing to expend some energy in religious activities such as attending church and reading the Bible, and they are willing to throw some money in the offering basket, but when it comes time to truly establishing their priorities and making a tangible commitment to knowing and loving God, most people stop short.
-- George Barna

#God #Religious #Reading
God can, has and will use anybody who is open to serving Him to convey the gospel. He will bless the efforts of His servants whether they are gifted as evangelizers or not.
-- George Barna

#Effort #Religion #Use
Jesus didn't die so we could fill auditoriums, he died so that lives could be transformed.
-- George Barna

#Jesus #Auditoriums
When we're always connected, we allow others-colleagu es and celebrities, close friends and distant acquaintances, bloggers and news aggregators-set our life's agenda. Our ability to prioritize is paralyzed by the sheer volume of requests, demands, opportunities, and information.
-- George Barna

#Opportunity #News #Agendas
Increasingly, America is biblically illiterate.
-- George Barna

#America #Illiterate
Nearly 60% of Americans who regularly attend Christian church say there is no such thing as the Holy Spiritâ€”they say the Holy Spirit is just a symbol of Godâ€™s power or presence or purity.
-- George Barna

#Christian #Church #Spirit
We cannot be effective if we continue to cling to the old ways, the old strategies, the old assumptions.
-- George Barna

#Religion #Way #Assumption
The absolute goal of vision for ministry is to glorify God.
-- George Barna

#Goal #Vision #Ministry
The average Christian leaves planet earth never having led anyone to Christ.
-- George Barna

#Christian #Average #Religion
Evangelism that starts at the nonbeliever's point of felt need and ties the gospel into that area of need has the greatest capacity for capturing the mind and heart of the non-Christian.
-- George Barna

#Christian #Heart #Ties
True visionaries are never lukewarm.
-- George Barna

#Vision #Visionaries

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