Radical - Chapter Five

Here are the five quotes that stuck out to me from chapter five of Radical. Chapter five featured some great perspective about the importance of discipleship and how we are commanded to make disciples.

"Disciple making is not a call for others to come to us to hear the gospel but a command for us to go to others to share the gospel."

"We will multiply the gospel only when we allow others to get close enough to us to see the life of Christ in action."

"When we take responsibility for helping others grow in Christ, it automatically takes our own relationship with Christ to a new level."

"What if we changed the question whenever we gathered to learn God's word? What if we began to think, How can I listen to his Word so that I am equipped to teach this Word to others?"

"In a culture where bigger is always better and flashy is always more effective, Jesus beckons each of us to plainly, humbly, and quietly focus our lives on people."

Radical - Chapter Four

Here are some quotes that stuck out to me from chapter four of Radical. I'm slowly prodding my way through this book but it's a great read.

"How many of us are so settled in the United States that we have never given serious thought to the possibility that God may call us to live in another country?"

"Jesus himself has not merely called us to go to all nations; he has created us and commanded us to go to all nations. We have taken this command, though, and reduced it to a calling - something that only a few people receive."

"We have unnecessarily (and unbiblically) drawn a line of distinction, assigning the obligations of Christianity to a few while keeping the privileges of Christianity for us all."

"What if anything less than passionate involvement in global missions is actually selling God short by frustrating the very purpose for which he created us?"

"God is committed to providing abundant resources in support of those who are living according to his purpose."

Radical - Chapter Three

Here are some quotes from chapter three of Radical. This has become a book that I hate to read but I also love to read because of the challenging and humbling perspective that is offered.

"While the goal of the American dream is to make much of us, the goal of the gospel is to make much of God."

"God puts his people in positions where they are desperate for his power, and then he shows his provision in ways that display his greatness."

"We have convinced ourselves that if we can position our resources and organize our strategies, then in church as in every other sphere of life, we can accomplish anything we set our minds to."

"We can so easily deceive ourselves, mistaking the presence of physical bodies in a crowd for the existence of spiritual life in a community."

"A church could have all the man-made resources that one could imagine, but apart from the power of the Holy Spirit, such a church will do nothing of significance for the glory of God."