Quotes from Deliberate Simplicity

I recently finished reading Deliberate Simplicity: How the Church Does More by Doing Less by Dave Browning. Here are some things that I underlined as I read it:

The Great Commission does not say, "Come," it says, "Go." But we (the Church) create events, programs, services, and classes, then hope and pray that people will come to us.

When we lack passion, it is often because we have allowed something precious to become familiar.

Is church a place you go to or is church a place you go from?

We have churches full of people who love Jesus. But that's not enough. We need to love what Jesus loves: the world.

The greatest sin of the Church today is not any sin of commission or sin of omission but the sin of no mission.

A survey was performed in San Francisco asking, "What do Christians do?" The two most prominent answers: "They go to a lot of meetings" & "They are against things."

Worship is the way we stay centered. Small groups are the way we stay connected. Outreach is the way we stay concerned.

The gap holding back most believers is not the gap between what they know and what they don't know. It's the gap between what they know and what they are living.