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The Deliberate Church: Building Your Ministry on the Gospel by Mark Dever and Paul Alexander

Some of my favorite quotes from a new book I have started: The Deliberate Church: Building Your Ministry on the Gospel by Mark Dever and Paul Alexander

"Ours is a ministry of magnification—making God’s glory appear to the eyes of the world as big as it really is by bringing it into closer view and sharper focus in the form of the local church."
"The Word builds the Church. Our power is not in having small groups, or meeting the felt needs of our target audience, or using the right evangelism program, or having funny skits, or providing plenteous parking, or targeting our ministries to postmoderns. Our power is in our unique message—the Gospel (Greek, euangelion)—not in our innovations."
"Do you measure success by results, or by faithfulness to God’s Word?"