Quotes I like…or have made me think, changed my life… 

• “Following Jesus is primarily about just that: following. Not just saying or singing or trying. Not just talking a good spiritual game. But actually, through God’s grace, loving as Jesus loved, living as Jesus lived, and teaching as Jesus taught. We seem to have made the whole thing an intellectual exercise in being “right.” – The Jesus of Suburbia by Mike Erre  
• “Better to try and fail, because at least you are being true to yourself. And the worst thing would be to live wondering, What if?” – Velvet Elvis – Rob Bell 
• Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the the universe.” – Albert Einstein 
• The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them. – Albert Einstein 
• Mediocrity: It takes a lot less time and most people won’t notice the difference until it’s too late. 
• “Have you ever seen a flannel-graph Jesus with a whip-when he got angry right in the middle of church? We like to think of Jesus as being like Mr. Rogers. The problem is, no one would crucify Mr. Rogers” – The Jesus of Suburbia by Mike Erre
• “What the world seems to be waiting for is not more incessant talk about objective truth but an embodied witness that clearly demonstrates why anyone should care about Jesus in the first place.” – The Jesus of Suburbia by Mike Erre 
• “The reason this is so important is that everybody follows somebody. We all learn how to live and love from somebody else. By listening and observing, I can learn whom someone is following, and, I hope, they will see in me someone following Jesus Christ. It seems that we have quit seeing Jesus as a teacher and rabbi and have made him into being only a savior and forgiver. As we have seen, Jesus calls me to surrender my whole life into his hands and promises to teach me how to live in his kingdom. As I learn to live my life as if Jesus had my life to live, I put him on display to those around me. Because we all follow somebody, the best demonstration of the good news of Jesus is for people outside the kingdom of Jesus to see what happens when you follow him.” – The Jesus of Suburbia by Mike Erre 
• “Our posture toward each other and the culture around us, then, is diametrically opposed to the culture itself. How do we redeem culture? We observe it and engage it on its terms and then demonstrate the message of Jesus through service and love.” – The Jesus of Suburbia by Mike Erre 
• The Church is the bride of Christ. Quit sleeping around and pimping her out to satisfy your own personal preferences. – Pastor Steven Furtick 
• “But sometimes the most encouraging thing you can do is tell it like it is. To rock someone’s world with the truth, for the glory of God.” – Pastor Steven Furtick 
• Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. – Pastor Scott Hodge. 
• It is a sin to be good if God has called us to be great. – “Breakout Churches” – Thom S. Rainer  
• If we choose to ignore the culture around us, we aren’t following in the footsteps of Jesus. We’re only digging our own grave and burying ourselves alive. – Mark Batterson 
• “The right players are vital. Without the right leaders, the church will never be aligned. People follow leadership, and if leadership is not moving in the same direction then people are scattered. Leaders are responsible to establish and reinforce the culture of the church. Consequently, if the leaders are not aligneds, the church will not enjoy unity.” – Simple Church by Thom S. Rainer and Eric Geiger 
• “Followers want comfort. stability, and solutions from their leaders, but that’s babysitting. Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting stress.” – “The Work of Leadership,”