Quotes about Followers

For the crowd that followed him kept shouting, “Away with him!”

For when one of you says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” are you not mere men?

Many will follow in their depravity, and because of them the way of truth will be defamed.

There are many men who would have done better than I did under the circumstances in which I found myself. If I had never held command, if I had fallen, there were 10,000 behind who would have followed the contest to the end and never surrendered the Union.

We were created not for earth but for eternity. We were created not to be Liked but to show love. We were created not to draw attention to ourselves but to give glory to God. We were created not to collect followers but to follow Christ.

The right choice was the more difficult one. Way more difficult. But as Jesus followers, we know it's best to choose hard over easy when hard is right.

When you delegate tasks, you create followers. When you delegate authority, you create leaders

When did we, as Christ followers, start to think that the church exists for us? When did we forget that we are the church? And that we're here for the world?

The temptation that Jesus resisted in the wildreness [a crown without a cross; worldly glory], many of us, His followers, still long for.

We live on a planet that has been invaded by evil forces, and God's followers are called to be part of the solution.

Sadly, Jesus' followers tend to take the reverse approach. Some churches gradually lower the ideals, accommodating moral standards to a changing culture. Others raise the bar of grace so that needy people feel unwelcome: "We don't want that kind of person in our church." Either way we fail to communicate the spectacular good news that everyone fails and yet a gracious God offers forgiveness to all.

A leader shows patience by not running too far ahead of his followers and thus discouraging them. While keeping ahead, he stays near enough for them to keep him in sight and hear his call forward.