Church Planters Quotes

“If a church is good at making disciples it will be good at making leaders because in the end, a good spiritual formation plan will lead to an accelerated spiritual multiplication.”
― Gary Rohrmayer, Next Steps For Leading a Missional Church

“Missional leaders understand the power of connecting relationally in their community through personal networking.”
― Gary Rohrmayer

“If evangelism is really going to be a value that your church embraces, the church will have to embrace the changes that will take place when evangelism is activated in the church.”
― Gary Rohrmayer, Spiritual Conversations: Creating and Sustaining Them Without Being a Jerk

“The mission that God has given us is a highly relational mission. Jesus said, "As the Father has sent me, I am sending you" John 20:21. Jesus came into this world, lived in obscurity for 30 years and then spent three years relationally investing in twelve men, whose charge was to do the same thing by relationally investing in others. This strategy has worked for 2000 years each of us has been touched by someone reaching out to and investing in us relationally, thus advancing the gospel and the mission of God.”
― Gary Rohrmayer, First Steps for Planting a Missional Church

“Missional leaders not only feel the burden of God's mission but they also act on the burden and act upon it sacrificially. Leading a missional church is not for the faint of heart. It takes courage to push yourself beyond your comfort zone and to lead the church beyond it personal limits. Brokenness, inner turmoil and sacrifice will always be part of the missional leader's life.”
― Gary Rohrmayer, Next Steps For Leading a Missional Church

“Effective leaders are good spotters. They are on the lookout for
potential leaders. They have the ability to look beyond other’s deficiencies to
see their possibilities.”
― Gary Rohrmayer, Church Planting Landmines

“Leaders are passionate learners. Leaders are always seeking ways to improve themselves by sharpening their skills. They fully embrace the fact that growing leaders lead growing organizations.”
― Gary Rohrmayer, Spiritual Conversations: Creating and Sustaining Them Without Being a Jerk

“Great leaders are teachable leaders.”
― Gary Rohrmayer, Church Planting Landmines

“Every church has a marketing plan! The only difference is that some are better than others! When I think of marketing I think of building a relationship with those within reach of your ministry who know nothing about your church or are disconnected from your people.”
― Gary Rohrmayer, First Steps for Planting a Missional Church

“Keep at it! Remember marketing is building a relationship! If you use marketing for a year and stop, you cut off your relationship with the larger community. Then you will have to re-start the relationship all over again. The old adage “it takes six to stick” is proven true over and over again. I realized this in year three of our church plant. I think of the hundreds of people that came to our services that had no connection with me or our people because we were willing to build a sustained relationship with them through marketing.”
― Gary Rohrmayer, First Steps for Planting a Missional Church

“One of the landmines that church planters never dodge is the landmine
of leadership development. I will never forget the day when I realized
that there are no such things as 'ready-made leaders'.”
― Gary Rohrmayer, Church Planting Landmines

“Having a good definition of spiritual leadership is critical to development
of leadership cultural throughout your church. You need to know what you are
shooting for if you are going to hit the target.”
― Gary Rohrmayer, Church Planting Landmines

“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, Church Planting Landmines

“Effective networkers know how to make a positive first impression. They understand their environment and know want is acceptable and unacceptable conversation and attire. They know how to get people to talk about themselves, their business, their desires and dreams. They know how to tell who they are and what they do in twenty-five words or less, in a way that draws questions out of others. There is nothing more annoying than someone who just talks about themselves and shows little interest in others. Networkers are effective listeners and continually learning about the nuances of their communities and the leaders who serve them.”
― Gary Rohrmayer, Church Planting Landmines

“An angry leader is a scared leader or a hurt leader or a frustrated leader but most of all they are a vulnerable leader.”
― Gary Rohrmayer

“Our enemy attacks the conscience little by little seeking to wear us down and then wears out a leader's resolve to fight the good fight.”
― Gary Rohrmayer

“No man is exempted from the subtle deception of doctrinal drift – the man of God expects this temptation.”
― Gary Rohrmayer

“Missional leaders know that their church will only grow as large as its capacity to provide ongoing care through a network of small groups and ministry teams.”
― Gary Rohrmayer, Next Steps For Leading a Missional Church

“Leadership is simply a well applied energy burst. If a leader is going to let his energy get depleted through not important and urgent activities that distracts every ministry, then there will not be any energy left to counteract the evangelistic entropy that attacks every church and robs them of their evangelistic effectiveness.”
― Gary Rohrmayer, Spiritual Conversations: Creating and Sustaining Them Without Being a Jerk

“There is nothing better than to have a highly motivated team of leaders focused on than reaching those far from Christ. And yet statistics and our experience reveal that evangelism entropy can creep deep inside a new church within months of its first public service. The longer we are around new churches the more amazed we are at how quickly these mission-focused, vibrant new churches become old.”
― Gary Rohrmayer, Church Planting Landmines

“Church planting is still the most effective means for advancing the gospel locally, regionally and globally.”
― Gary Rohrmayer

“Why does every young church planter these days feel compelled to articulate a "mission statement" and a "vision statement," which will then be regularly rehearsed on stage, in videos, and in all the church's literature? If you had asked pastors for the first two thousand years of church history what their mission statement was, they would have looked confused by the question and then probably opened their Bibles and pointed to the last verses of Matthew 28.”
― Jonathan Leeman, One Assembly: Rethinking the Multisite and Multiservice Church Models