“This ‘telephone’ has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication.”
“Horses have always worked—why change?”
What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 1:9
You have heard that it was said, … But I tell you …
Matthew 5:27-28
“The missional church is incarnational, not attractional. It does not say, ‘Come to us,’ but rather, ‘We are coming to you.’”
Michael Frost, The Shaping of Things to Come
If we are going to genuinely recover a sense of mission, we must decentralize and reorient the church around mission, not maintenance.
Alan Hirsch, The Forgotten Ways
The church is not an event or a place; it’s a people sent on mission.
Ed Stetzer, Christianity Today
The church is not only a gathered community, but also a scattered one.
Tim Keller, Center Church
See, I am doing a new thing!
Isaiah 43:19
See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs forth …
Isaiah 43:19
Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. “Never, Lord!” he said. “This will never happen to you!”
Matthew16:22
Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing!
Isaiah 43:18-19
“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” Henry Ford
… able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine …
Ephesians 3:20-21
But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 3:13-14
See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs forth; do you not perceive it?
Isaiah 43:19
Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds.
John 12:24
See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness And rivers in the desert.
Isaiah 43:19
