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Top 25 Ed Stetzer Quotes (2024 Update)

Ed Stetzer Quote: “Put your ‘yes’ on the table and let God put it on the map.”

1. “Put your ‘yes’ on the table and let God put it on the map.”

Ed Stetzer Quote: “A church without the broken is a broken church.”

2. “A church without the broken is a broken church.”

Ed Stetzer Quote: “Don’t let your church be a cul-de-sac on the Great Commission highway.”

3. “Don’t let your church be a cul-de-sac on the Great Commission highway.”

Ed Stetzer Quote: “Being Missional means actually doing mission right where you are. Missional means adopting the posture of a missionary, learning and adapting to the culture around you while remaining Biblically sound.”

4. “Being Missional means actually doing mission right where you are. Missional means adopting the posture of a missionary, learning and adapting to the culture around you while remaining Biblically sound.”

Ed Stetzer Quote: “If you’re regularly willing to give a critique, but not willing to take one, you’re not a leader, you’re a cynic.”

5. “If you’re regularly willing to give a critique, but not willing to take one, you’re not a leader, you’re a cynic.”

Ed Stetzer Quote: “Being missional means moving intentionally beyond our church preferences, making missional decisions rather than preferential decisions.”

6. “Being missional means moving intentionally beyond our church preferences, making missional decisions rather than preferential decisions.”

Ed Stetzer Quote: “Just as the true fruit of an apple tree is not an apple, but another tree; the true fruit of a small group is not a new Christian, but another group; the true fruit of a church is not a new group, but a new church; the true fruit of a leader is not a follower, but a new leader; the true fruit of an evangelist is not a convert, but new evangelists. Whenever this principle is understood and applied, the results are dramatic.”

7. “Just as the true fruit of an apple tree is not an apple, but another tree; the true fruit of a small group is not a new Christian, but another group; the true fruit of a church is not a new group, but a new church; the true fruit of a leader is not a follower, but a new leader; the true fruit of an evangelist is not a convert, but new evangelists. Whenever this principle is understood and applied, the results are dramatic.”

Ed Stetzer Quote: “Teaching people to become like Jesus, outside of the power of Jesus, dishonors Jesus.”

8. “Teaching people to become like Jesus, outside of the power of Jesus, dishonors Jesus.”

Ed Stetzer Quote: “90 percent of heart patients who are told to change their lifestyle habits or die, choose death over change.”

9. “90 percent of heart patients who are told to change their lifestyle habits or die, choose death over change.”

Ed Stetzer Quote: “We believe the church’s purpose is to glorify God, not to make people happy. The church does not exist for believers or unbelievers; it exists for God’s glory, for the equipping of believers, and the church is God’s missionary in the world.”

10. “We believe the church’s purpose is to glorify God, not to make people happy. The church does not exist for believers or unbelievers; it exists for God’s glory, for the equipping of believers, and the church is God’s missionary in the world.”

Ed Stetzer Quote: “I don’t think you can love Jesus without loving His wife.”

11. “I don’t think you can love Jesus without loving His wife.”

Ed Stetzer Quote: “It’s ironic that most evangelical churches are filled with people who live very much like the world but look different from it. It should be exactly the opposite. We should look similar to those in our community but act differently.”

12. “It’s ironic that most evangelical churches are filled with people who live very much like the world but look different from it. It should be exactly the opposite. We should look similar to those in our community but act differently.”

Ed Stetzer Quote: “You can move a leader’s feet by force, or you can move their hearts by influence and inspiration.”

13. “You can move a leader’s feet by force, or you can move their hearts by influence and inspiration.”

Ed Stetzer Quote: “If your church loves the way you do church more than your children, it loves the wrong thing.”

14. “If your church loves the way you do church more than your children, it loves the wrong thing.”

Ed Stetzer Quote: “The Christian life is not about finding safety and comfort; it’s about finding yourself in a dangerous place of vulnerable compassion.”

15. “The Christian life is not about finding safety and comfort; it’s about finding yourself in a dangerous place of vulnerable compassion.”

Ed Stetzer Quote: “We have to assess: Are we making disciples along the way as we draw people to our churches?”

16. “We have to assess: Are we making disciples along the way as we draw people to our churches?”

Ed Stetzer Quote: “Your denomination is not defined by a style. So don’t let style become a point of contention.”

17. “Your denomination is not defined by a style. So don’t let style become a point of contention.”

Ed Stetzer Quote: “To engage people in culture we must remember that holiness is separation from sin, not separation from sinners.”

18. “To engage people in culture we must remember that holiness is separation from sin, not separation from sinners.”

Ed Stetzer Quote: “If we demand things in worship that can’t be in every culture, then we’re demanding cultural preferences, not biblical.”

19. “If we demand things in worship that can’t be in every culture, then we’re demanding cultural preferences, not biblical.”

Ed Stetzer Quote: “You cannot hate a people and reach a people at the same time.”

20. “You cannot hate a people and reach a people at the same time.”

Ed Stetzer Quote: “If they do what missionaries do – study and learn language, become part of culture, proclaim the Good News, be the presence of Christ, and contextualize biblical life and church for that culture – they are missional churches.”

21. “If they do what missionaries do – study and learn language, become part of culture, proclaim the Good News, be the presence of Christ, and contextualize biblical life and church for that culture – they are missional churches.”

Ed Stetzer Quote: “A mature Christian recognizes that correcting every wrong on the Internet would take more hours than a full-time job. If you snap every time your great-aunt’s friend’s cousin thrice-removed makes a snarky comment about “all the contradictions in the Bible,” it will consume you and your joy.”

22. “A mature Christian recognizes that correcting every wrong on the Internet would take more hours than a full-time job. If you snap every time your great-aunt’s friend’s cousin thrice-removed makes a snarky comment about “all the contradictions in the Bible,” it will consume you and your joy.”

Ed Stetzer Quote: “Because God is in control and will redeem all things, I can be calm, bold, and gracious as I share the gospel.”

23. “Because God is in control and will redeem all things, I can be calm, bold, and gracious as I share the gospel.”

Ed Stetzer Quote: “Together we are called to ask, What does it mean to be followers of Christ in our local community? In what ways do our values and beliefs shape how we live out the gospel and its implications in our cultural context? How can we best communicate the hope and truth in Jesus’ Kingdom to our friends, neighbors, coworkers, and family?”

24. “Together we are called to ask, What does it mean to be followers of Christ in our local community? In what ways do our values and beliefs shape how we live out the gospel and its implications in our cultural context? How can we best communicate the hope and truth in Jesus’ Kingdom to our friends, neighbors, coworkers, and family?”

Ed Stetzer Quote: “Dedicating ourselves to Scripture reading, prayer, and fasting enables us to reset our minds, steering us away from the road toward outrage and onto the path of peace.”

25. “Dedicating ourselves to Scripture reading, prayer, and fasting enables us to reset our minds, steering us away from the road toward outrage and onto the path of peace.”

Ed Stetzer Quote: “Every church and believer must ask: What are we known for in the community? What do we represent?”

26. “Every church and believer must ask: What are we known for in the community? What do we represent?”

Ed Stetzer Quote: “Our interests, goals, and ambitions must be centered on the all-embracing task the gospel sets before us. Paul describes this in Romans 15:20: “My ambition has always been to preach the Good News where the name of Christ has never been heard, rather than where a church has already been started by someone else.”

27. “Our interests, goals, and ambitions must be centered on the all-embracing task the gospel sets before us. Paul describes this in Romans 15:20: “My ambition has always been to preach the Good News where the name of Christ has never been heard, rather than where a church has already been started by someone else.”

Ed Stetzer Quote: “When the church protects the powerful at the expense of the victim, we have compromised. And in the end, these compromises add up and convince the world that the church is not a community for the broken in search of healing but just another human institution that puts expediency above righteousness and justice.”

28. “When the church protects the powerful at the expense of the victim, we have compromised. And in the end, these compromises add up and convince the world that the church is not a community for the broken in search of healing but just another human institution that puts expediency above righteousness and justice.”

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