Quotes from Dave Ferguson

I cannot change the world. You cannot change the world. Even prayer alone doesn't change the world. Only God can change the world! However, God uses prayer to change us, and then God uses us to change our world.

Being Spirit led is simply hearing from God and obeying what he says. Sounds simple, right? It is, but it's also incredibly challenging.

Discipleship in the church today has more to do with consuming and absorbing cognitive content than it has anything to do with missional action.

Identity always precedes behavior. What you need is someone to come alongside you and help you remember who you are and to whom you belong.

Deep down, our single greatest fear is to live a life of insignificance, to come to the end of our life and feel like we never really did anything that mattered. That is our greatest fear.

If you don't have a dream that leads you to greater dependence on God, then you need to get a bigger dream!

Do the right thing, deliver what you promised, and be consistent in the way you do it no matter what.

We first must plant the gospel in the hearts and lives of people and then see what form of ecclesia emerges from the transformed community. If we begin with the premise that we are starting a "church," it will often come loaded with intuitional and cultural assumptions. Churches should grow out of the mission, not the other way around.

Things that are important to us are written in our calendars. If you want to be intentional about setting aside time to pray, you need to plan for it.

Developing coaches (leaders of leaders) may be the single most overlooked yet vital task in spreading a missional movement.