Quotes From Church Leaders

"If those who prepare for leadership are looking for the safe place, who will lead the church into the dangerous places?" - Erwin McManus in An Unstoppable Force (Group, 2001)

"Membership in a small group is a better predictor of whether people volunteer or give money than how often they attend church, whether they pray, whether they've had a deep religious experience, or whether they were raised in a Christian home. Social action is not a consequence of belief, in other words. I don't give because I believe in religious charity. I give because I belong to a social structure that enforces an ethic of giving." - Malcolm Gladwell, The New Yorker, September 12, 2005

"Volunteers should be reminded, again and again, that they're valued; that what they're doing is part of the redemptive drama that's been going throughout human history; that the role they are playing is not insignificant; that God treasures every task they perform, every hour of service they render." - Bill Hybels, The Volunteer Revolution, (Zondervan, 2004)

"The church is not an agency to be served, but a workforce to be deployed." - Ocsar E. Feucht, Everyone a Minister, (Concordia, 1974)