Colin Marshall Quotes

Treinamento é paternidade... começa com [levar] ao novo nascimento... transmitir conhecimento, sabedoria e instrução prática... envolve ser modelo... forma não somente crenças e habilidades, mas também o caráter e o estilo de vida.” (pp. 84)

Somos um exemplo para aqueles a quem ensinamos e treinamos, quer gostemos, quer não.” (pp. 83)

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?

a ênfase não está no crescimento da congregação como estrutura – em números, finanças e sucesso – e sim no crescimento do evangelho, à medida que ele é pregado e pregado de novo sob o poder do Espírito” (pp. 45-46)

é interessante que o Novo Testamento fala pouco sobre crescimento de igreja e fala frequentemente sobre ‘crescimento do evangelho’ ou crescimento da ‘Palavra’” (pp. 45)

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. In fact, New Testament congregations, as far as we can tell, were usually small gatherings meeting in houses. They were outwardly unimpressive, and had minimal infrastructure. But God kept drawing people into them by the gospel. Or to put it another way, Christ kept doing what he said he would do in Matthew 16. He kept building his church.

This is our aim in people work. It involves not just ministry skills and competencies, but growth in convictions (understanding) and character (godliness).

His task is to teach and train his congregation, by his word and his life, to become disciple-making disciples of Jesus.

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

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.

O próprio evangelho exige que fiquemos com nossos líderes e pregadores em profunda unidade, cooperação e solidariedade – não por causa dos seus dons... mas por causa de nossa parceria comum no evangelho de Jesus Cristo.” (pp. 75)

The second implication is that the growth God is looking for in our world is growth in people.

I choose men to meet with me weekly from 6.30-7.30 am.

We are all captive to our traditions and influenced by them more than we realize. And the effect of tradition and long practice is not always that some terrible error becomes entrenched; more often it is that our focus shifts away from our main task and agenda, which is disciple-making. We become so used to doing things one way (often for good reason at first) that important elements are neglected and forgotten, to our cost. We become imbalanced, and then wonder why we go in circles.

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