I often share this powerful quote from Michael Slaughter:
“The unpaid servant will spell the success or failure of the Christian mission….people who are willing to give of themselves to be real followers of Jesus Christ….radical Christianity.
I’d rather have a church of 12 people who can replicate the DNA of the Kingdom of God than a church of thousands that will infect people with something less.
Take time to build the real thing, not watered-down, lukewarm look-a-likes. If we’re going to be the church at all, let’s be the real thing. Build the church God’s way…as an organic movement of unpaid servants.”
Michael Slaughter, unLearning Church, Abingdon Press
