Top Highlights

• Every Christian is called into full-time ministry. Once we step over the line and begin to follow Jesus, everything we do is supposed to be done in his name, representing him, with the goal of advancing his kingdom.
• A third thing that makes “Giveaway Churches” so rare is our natural spiritual myopia. It’s easy to confuse our castle with God’s kingdom.
• Planting always involves risk. We release control of something we need in the hopes that it will come back to us in multiplied measure. But once we let go of it, we forfeit any ability to use it for ourselves. Seeds you plant you can no longer consume. Yet without the act of planting, there will never be a harvest.
• Jesus’ measure of the church is not seating capacity, but sending capacity.
• There are two basic questions about discipleship that we have to ask ourselves over and over, in every new season of life and in regards to whatever resources God has given us stewardship over: — Whose kingdom are we actually building: ours, or God’s? — Do we really believe that Jesus grows his kingdom most as we “give away” what he’s given to us?