“If pastors do not live in the community where their church is located, pastors don’t have ministry, they have management.”
— Sung K Kwon
“Church leaders, you need to decide who you’re going to lose: the people in your community who don’t know the love of Christ, or the church member who thinks church revolves around him (or her).” -Carey Nieuwhof
“It is good to have a complete package of beliefs, it is good to have the truth, and it is great to be right, but if we are right in everything and we have no compassion, we are wrong.” -Jose Cortes Jr.
“Do not be so caught up with the mark of the beast that you forget the mark of the least. Let us seek to help others in need, the least of us.” -John Rengifo
“It is not full-time church if you are not open at least forty hours a week.” - John Boston
“We can’t expect the community to come to us if they don’t believe we are here for them.” -Jose Cortes Jr.
“We know Jesus will destroy evil one day, in the meantime we must confront it by being Jesus’ eyes, heart, hands and feet today.” Jose Cortes Jr.
“Oh Lord, let me not live to be useless.” John Wesley
“My understanding of Jesus is that He was both practical and spiritual. He could preach an anointed sermon and then change a flat tire on the way home from church.” Wayne Culmore
“If our mission is so vital that it does not allow us to take time to care for the needy, heal the wounded, feed the hungry, and speak up for those who are being discriminated against and mistreated, then our mission is not Jesus’ mission.” — José Cortes Jr.
“The most important things in life are not ‘the things’. -Abdiel Del Toro
“Correction is not a religious right, it is a relational privilege.” -Dr. Boubakar Sanou
“The building is not the church. We are the church. The great influence that will change the world will not be the church building but us being the church everywhere, with everyone, and at all times.” -Abdiel Del Toro
“People respond to the Gospel that has flesh on it.” - Ron Pickell
“The biggest proof that we are His disciples will always be our love for other sinners, never our ‘great’ behavior.” - Jose Cortes Jr.
"The Gospel that Jesus preached was not limited to sermons; neither should ours." Jose Cortes Jr.
“Compassion is not a substitute for proclamation. The proclamation of the Gospel will always be needed, but proclamation without compassion is spam.” Jose Cortes Jr.
“If you’re waiting on God, do what waiters do: serve.” Ann Vosk
“Compassion is authority.” -Henri Nouwen