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Disciple-Making Quotations

"We look upon ourselves, not as the authors or ringleaders of a particular sect or party, but as messengers of God to those who are Christian in name, but Heathens in heart and in life, to call them back to that from which they are fallen, to real genuine Christianity."       

John Wesley
 
 
"It will not be Casual Christians God can use for a remnant, a turnaround, the Third Great Awakening. It will be Kingdom people, by whatever name." 
 
Dr. Molly David Scott and Dr. James B. Scott
 
 
"John Wesley insisted that the church must be holy in the fuller sense of nurturing - and expecting - the progressive holiness of each of its members. The church anticipates full communion with God and lives in communion to nurture and sustain its members' growth in love of God and neighbor. In this way, the church participates in the inauguration of God's kingdom on earth . . .
 
"Each member of a Methodist society received instruction in the faith and nurture for holy living in a system whose purpose was behavioral change, spiritual growth, personal interaction, and community transformation . . .
 
"In no way do we merit the gifts of salvation, but we do have a role in our own salvation by making ourselves available to work of the Holy Spirit with the help of God's grace"
 
Sondra Higgins Matthaei,
Making Disciples, Faith Formation in the Wesleyan Tradition
 
 
IT IS NOT THE CRITIC WHO COUNTS: not the (sic) man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again ... who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly.
 
Theodore Roosevelt