Quotes about Community
The problem is that we don't have a "missional" problem or a leadership problem in the Western church. We have a discipleship problem.
- Mike Breen
If you set out to build the church, there is no guarantee you will make disciples. It is far more likely that you will create consumers who depend on the spiritual services that religious professionals provide.
- Mike Breen
From our experience, if you want to make disciples, if you want to build a discipling culture in your community, you are going to need three things: 1. A discipleship vehicle (I call it a Huddle) 2. People need access to your life (the texture of Family on Mission) 3. A discipling language (the discipling language I use is called LifeShapes)
- Mike Breen
Effective discipleship builds the church, not the other way around. We need to understand the church as the effect of discipleship and not the cause.
- Mike Breen
the purpose of a family on mission is to multiply the life of Jesus by reproducing ourselves into the lives of others, so they become disciples of Jesus who can then reproduce themselves into the lives of others.
- Mike Breen
The goal is not to run a program called "Missional Community." The goal is to learn how to function as an extended family on mission.
- Mike Breen
We don't have A "missional" problem. We Have A discipleship Problem.
- Mike Breen
IF THERE'S ANYTHING ANY OF US SHOULD BECOME GREAT AT, IT'S MAKING DISCIPLES WHO CAN MAKE DISCIPLES.
- Mike Breen
No one is more important to the future of our state than our teachers.
- Mike Huckabee
Well, for me the pro-life issue has been something I've been very passionate about since the '70s, and I have been very involved in the pro-life community since long before politics.
- Mike Huckabee
My kids have moved more in their twenties, you know, than my parents have moved in nearly 40-something years of marriage before they died. So there's a part of me that laments what we have lost, and that is a sense of community.
- Mike Huckabee
The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.
- Milan Kundera