41 Quotes by Thom S. Rainer

The members at Philippi knew what they were supposed to do. They were to live the gospel. They were to proclaim the gospel.

If given a choice between life and death, most people and leaders choose death if life requires substantive changes.

A failure to pray was tantamount to a failure to breathe.

When the early Jerusalem church members devoted themselves to prayer, they were doing a lot more than reading names off a list. They were fervent, intense, and passionate about prayer.

Research shows that when you receive frequent interruptions while working on a task, your performance drops the equivalent of ten IQ points. In other words, when you multi-task you are ten points dumber on the core task than you are if you just focused on the core task. Some of us cannot afford to multi-task.1.

Seven out of ten guests will go to a church website as a determinative factor in where they will choose to visit.

When the church is engaged in meaningful prayer, it becomes both the cause and the result of greater church health.

The churches were purposeless. They were engaged in an activity called, “This is the way we’ve always done it.

When a church ceases to have a heart and ministry for its community, it is on the path toward death.