Top 17 Quotes & Sayings by Ed Stetzer

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Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Edward John Stetzer is an American author, speaker, researcher, pastor, church planter, and Christian missiologist. Stetzer is Billy Graham Distinguished Chair of Church, Mission, and Evangelism at Wheaton College and Executive Director of the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College. He is the North American Regional Director for Lausanne International and serves as interim Teaching Pastor. He is a contributor to the North American discussion on missional church, church planting, church revitalization, and Christian cultural engagement.

American - Author | Born: 1966

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To engage people in culture we must remember that holiness is separation from sin, not separation from sinners.

Ed Stetzer

Teaching people to become like Jesus, outside of the power of Jesus, dishonors Jesus.

Ed Stetzer

Being Missional means actually doing mission right where you are. Missional means adopting the posture of a missionary, learning and adapting to the culture around you while remaining Biblically sound.

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A church without the broken is a broken church.

Ed Stetzer

Put your 'yes' on the table and let God put it on the map.

Ed Stetzer

If your church loves the way you do church more than your children, it loves the wrong thing.

Ed Stetzer

You cannot hate a people and reach a people at the same time.

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Regrettably, we've made it acceptable to sit in church week after week & do nothing & still call yourself a 'Christian.'

Ed Stetzer

I don't think you can love Jesus without loving His wife.

Ed Stetzer

The Christian life is not about finding safety and comfort; it’s about finding yourself in a dangerous place of vulnerable compassion.

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Barna is correct when he writes, "After fifteen years of diligent digging into the world around me, I have reached several conclusions about the future of the Christian church in America. The central conclusion is that the American church is dying due to lack of strong spiritual leadership. In this time of unprecedented opportunity and plentiful resources, the church is actually losing influence. The primary reason is the lack of leadership. Nothing is more important than leadership."7

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We have to assess: Are we making disciples along the way as we draw people to our churches?

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If you're regularly willing to give a critique, but not willing to take one, you're not a leader, you're a cynic.

Ed Stetzer

If we demand things in worship that can't be in every culture, then we're demanding cultural preferences, not biblical.

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Don't let your church be a cul-de-sac on the Great Commission highway.

Ed Stetzer

Community is essential when it comes to successfully living out the Christian walk in a day-to-day context. So the math is simple: More community = More disciples.

Ed Stetzer

Your denomination is not defined by a style. So don’t let style become a point of contention.

Ed Stetzer

Top 17 Quotes & Sayings by Ed Stetzer

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