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“As the church get older and older it becomes harder to keep evangelism on the front burner because of all the competing issues that keeps pushing it back.”
Gary Rohrmayer“Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles, expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these so-called new movements still operate out of the fallacious assumption that the church belongs firmly in the town square, that is, at the heart of Western culture. And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting, all their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.”
Alan Hirsch, The Shaping of Things to Come: Innovation and Mission for the 21st Century Church“One of the landmines that church planters never dodge is the landmineof leadership development. I will never forget the day when I realizedthat there are no such things as 'ready-made leaders'.”
Gary Rohrmayer, Church Planting Landmines“Having a good definition of spiritual leadership is critical to developmentof leadership cultural throughout your church. You need to know what you areshooting for if you are going to hit the target.”
Gary Rohrmayer, Church Planting Landmines“Effective leaders are good spotters. They are on the lookout forpotential leaders. They have the ability to look beyond other’s deficiencies tosee their possibilities.”
Gary Rohrmayer, Church Planting Landmines“Entrepreneurs are favored in neoliberal contexts because they prize ingenuity, self-invention, adaptation, dispensing with establishment hierarchies, and self-mastery. Church planting can be read as a religious incarnation of late modernity's entrepreneurial disposition.”
James S. Bielo, Emerging Evangelicals: Faith, Modernity, and the Desire for Authenticity