Colin Marshall Quotes

The Great Commission, in other words, is not just for the Eleven. It’s the basic agenda for all disciples. To be a disciple is to be a disciple-maker.

Deveríamos começar com as pessoas que Deus nos deu, não com nossos programas.” (pp. 27)

far the best way to build a congregation full of disciple-making disciples is to assemble and train a band of co-workers to labour alongside you.

The relational nature of training means that the best training will often occur by osmosis rather than formal instruction.

We shouldn’t sit back and wait for people to ‘feel called’ to gospel work, any more than we should sit back and wait for people to become disciples of Christ in the first place. We should be proactive in seeking, challenging and testing suitable people to be set apart for gospel work.

Are you committed to church growth or to gospel growth? Do you want more numbers in the pew now, or more labourers for the harvest over the next 50 years?

Se treinarmos e enviarmos obreiros a novos campos... nosso ministério local pode não crescer em números, mas o evangelho avançará por meio destes novos ministros da Palavra.” (pp. 33) – Comentário: prova que crescimento não é medido pelo número de membros.

Não há duas classes de cristãos – os cooperadores e os espectadores. Uma igreja... expressa isto por não ter ‘membresia’ na congregação, e sim ‘parceria’.” (pp. 75)

We are training people to be contributors and servants, not spectators and consumers.

The marvellous thing about generosity is that God loves it, and blesses it. In our experience, those churches that don’t try to hold on to their people, but continually train them and generously export them off into further training and ministry elsewhere, are the churches that God showers with more and more new people to train.

Churches don’t make disciples; disciples make disciples (Matt 28:19-20).

O âmago do treinamento não é transmitir uma capacidade, e sim transmitir sã doutrina.” (pp. 80)

But the emphasis is not on the growth of the congregation as a structure — in numbers, finances and success — but on the growth of the gospel, as it is spoken and re-spoken under the power of the Spirit.

Isso é obra da videira [pregar e orar]. Tudo mais é treliça.” (pp. 47)

É fácil nos focalizarmos em habilidades como um fim em si mesmas e colocarmos muita confiança nelas.” (pp. 86)