Just the Quotes from Exponential East 2015

Jim Tomberlin

• “If they can do this in Mississippi, it will work at your church.”
• “Growing churches have collaborative leadership teams.”
• “God breathed into us the desire to be fruitful and productive.  God mastered multiplication (Gen. 1:28).”

Ying Kai

• “We’ve been asking people to come when we should be telling people to go.”
• “People don’t share the gospel because they don’t know where to start and they don’t know what to say.”
• “Don’t ask for permission to share the gospel.  We don’t need permission to share Jesus’ love.”

Steve Murrell

• “Jesus’ job, build the church.  Our job, make disciples.”
• “In the western church ‘discipleship’ is a class to help members become better members.”

Joby Martin

• On Matthew 16:19, “Are you building key rings, or handing out keys?”
• Steve Stroope
• “Acts 1:8 is not sequential, it is simultaneous.”
• “Leadership is anticipation.”

Dave Ferguson

• “The words we use reinforce the values of our culture.”

J.D. Greear

• “Get beyond the idea that the call is for very few and the rest of us are just here to pay for them.”
• “The future of the Great Commission is not in the hands of pastors, but in the hands of ordinary people who are disciples who make disciples.”
• On John 16:7 “We are better off with the Holy Spirit in us than we are with Jesus beside us.”
• On James 4:1-4 “How much of what we ask for, do we ask for as an adulterer?”
• “What we do in church will not reach a majority of people because a majority of the unchurched people have no plans to be there.”

Mario Vega

• Rough translation, “I had one of our men call me this week and ask, ‘How can I plant a church in Chattanooga?’  I don’t even know where Chattanooga is, but I told him, ‘Here is how you plant a church.’”

Michael Frost

• “It is the stories we tell that give us the courage to believe and the strategy to reach the goal.”

Randy Frazee

• “Is your church a starfish or a spider?”

Mark Jobe

• On restarting dying and declining churches. “What you do with the first one will either open new doors for you, or close them forever.  Other people will hear how you do this.”

Derwin Gray

• “Is who we are worth multiplying?”
• “What we need in America is multiplied weakness; tear filled pastors.”

Danielle Strickland

• “Let them see you bleed.”

Bob Roberts

• “We don’t know how to do ministry in the open square because we don’t know how to love well.”

Ajai Lall

• “We live in a world full of extremists.  It is time for Christian extremism.  Extreme love.  Extreme compassion.  Extreme forgiveness.  Extreme concern for the lost.”

Max Lucado

• “Your actions have no thermostatic impact on God’s love.  God has determined to love you.”
• On John 2, “‘They have no wine.’ You will never find a more naked, honest prayer than this one.”
• “If prayer depends on us, we have no hope.  If prayer depends on the one who hears, then we have incredible hope.”
• “Give your problems to Christ before they get to you.”

Oscar Muriu

• “Do not let the smallness of your vision limit the greatness of our God.”
• “Most of us know only sustaining faith (as opposed to mountain moving faith).  We under-challenge God.”
• “An over abundance of caution is killing the church today.”
• “Brave means God does not have to explain Himself to you.”
• On Galatians 2:20, “Dead men are not afraid.”