Quotes about Empowerment

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The leader of an MC needs to be a disciple-maker, not merely an event-organizer.

Every disciple disciples. You can't be a disciple if you aren't willing to invest in and disciple others.

Give a man a fish and he can eat for a day, but teach a man to fish and he can eat for a lifetime. Changing the world may not be so daunting after all.

If we're going to make disciples and move out in mission, we need to go from managing boundaries to integrating family and mission into one life, a cohesive framework and fabric that empowers a culture of discipleship and mission, not just occasional events and periodic programs.

We need leaders who will step out of "managing church" and make discipling others their primary objective.

IF THERE'S ANYTHING ANY OF US SHOULD BECOME GREAT AT, IT'S MAKING DISCIPLES WHO CAN MAKE DISCIPLES.

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.

Cassius Clay is a slave name. I didn't choose it and I don't want it. I am Muhammad Ali, a free man -- it means "Beloved of God" -- and I insist people use it in speaking of and to me.

I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.

God never demands anything that He does not provide for. Whatever God commands us to do, He equips us to do.

Proverbs 25:28 says, "Like a city whose walls are broken down is a man who lacks self-control." In other words, if we do not control our own lives from the inside, somebody else will control them from the outside.