What is an Extraordinary Church?
Mike McKinley, in Church Planting it for Wimps, p. 110:
I want to redefine extraordinary….It’s not a stadium sized building, a multi-million dollar budget, or satellite feeds to multiple venues. That’s how the world measures and achieves extraordinary. Rather, it’s extraordinary when God converts our neighbors, coworkers, children, friends, and family. It’s extraordinary when proud, angry, selfish people have their hearts changed by the gospel. It’s extraordinary when new churches selflessly invest their time, money and prayers to establish even newer congregations. It’s extraordinary when marriages are restored and cultural prejudices give way to the unity of the gospel of Christ. It’s extraordinary whenever God uses ‘normal’ pastors and church planters, faithful men with extraordinary gifts and talents, to do all this work.
Probably the quote of the year.
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