Quotes from Deep & Wide by Andy Stanley

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Quotable Quotes from Andy Stanley’s Deep and Wide

• “any given weekend, 10 percent of our adult audiences identify themselves as guests (a guest being someone who has attended five times or less).”
• “While it’s amazing that the church survived the persecution of the first century, it may be more amazing that it survived the institutionalization and corruption of the centuries that followed. But it did survive. Jesus promised it would. As it turned out, the kirche of man could not contain the ekklesia of Jesus.”
• “People are far more interested in what works than what’s true. I hate to burst your bubble, but virtually nobody in your church is on a truth quest. Including your spouse. They are on happiness quests.”
• “The reason more people aren’t engaged with the local church is … we aren’t all that engaging!”
• “Is the setting appealing? Is the presentation engaging? Is the content helpful?”
• “since everyone likes to win, chances are people will consider their areas of ministry successful whether they are or not.”
• “Every innovation has an expiration date.”
• “When institutions fail to distinguish between current practices and the enduring principles of their success, and mistakenly fossilize around their practices, they’ve set themselves up for decline.”