“If you think you’ve blown God’s plan for your life, take comfort in the knowledge that you are not that powerful”
– Ari J. Rocklin
“Good deeds will not get you to heaven but the reason you feel so good after doing them is that you are feeling God’s pleasure”
– Ari J. Rocklin
“The gospel is less about getting into the Kingdom and more about building the Kingdom before you get there” – Ari J. Rocklin
“Your gifts, talents and resources are for serving others and honouring God” – Ari J. Rocklin
“God would not give you abilities, gifts, personality and life experiences unless He intended to use them for His glory”
Ari J. Rocklin
“Christians in the marketplace living the great commission”
Ari J. Rocklin
“Spiritual money laundering”
The perception that money earned through business is somehow unclean and becomes “clean” when given to God’s work.
Ari J. Rocklin
“If Christians spent as much time sharing their faith with their unsaved friends as they do praying for revival, the result would be a revival”
Ari J. Rocklin
“The workplace is an unreached mission field, yet little training exists that would equip believers to effectively integrate their faith and work”
Ari J. Rocklin
“Atheists are proof that God exists. If He did not, there would be no need to disprove His existence” Ari J. Rocklin
“I don’t understand atheists devoting their lives to not believing in something. I choose to spend my life believing in something”
Ari J. Rocklin
“I love hanging out with skeptical, analytical, rejects of mainstream Christianity people who are still passionate about their faith in God”
Ari J. Rocklin
“A faith that can’t stand up to being challenged is not worth believing”
Ari J. Rocklin
“The reason we miss divine appointments is that they often look like annoying interruptions”
Ari J. Rocklin
“Business as Mission only works if a mission plan is integrated with the business plan”
Ari J. Rocklin
“Professionals, business people and students are tentmakers as long as they are intentionally making Christ known in the spheres of their influence” Ari J. Rocklin
“As a tentmaker among the hard to reach nations, do not teach them your favourite songs and worship style.
Use songs that are Scripture based that are set to simple to melodies from the local culture.”
Ari J. Rocklin
“It is my contention that God’s people would rather pray for the unsaved than invite them over for coffee and share Jesus with them”
Ari J. Rocklin
Hundreds influenced for Christ on Sunday vs. thousands influenced by Christians Monday to Friday. Do the math!
Ari J. Rocklin
“The best indicator of a great missions mobilizer is that in their hearts they would rather go themselves than mobilize others but obedience keeps them from going.”
Ari J. Rocklin
“If you think of yourself as a man of God and watch porn, I have bad news for you: You are not a man of God.”
Ari J. Rocklin
“The inability of some Christians to follow Jesus teachings does not negate Christianity.”
Ari J. Rocklin
“It has always been my desire to see the Gospel preached where Jesus is not yet known” – Ari J. Rocklin
“With more than 3 billion people who still have not had a chance to know Jesus, it’s time to step up and proclaim: We will do what it takes to reach them in this generation!” – Ari J. Rocklin
“When there is an interruption in your plans, always pause to learn what God’s plan might be while you are interrupted.” – Ari J. Rocklin
“Intentional discipling of disciplers leads to self multiplying house churches.”
Ari J. Rocklin
“The purpose of the church is not to only to fill seats but to equip its people to make disciples who make disciples.”
Ari J. Rocklin
“The challenge of the church is to be less of a destination and more of a training ground for Christians who want to change their world.”
Ari J. Rocklin
“The test of a great tentmaking course is not hearing from students about how great it was but to hear them say, I will apply what I have learned.”
Ari J. Rocklin
“I believe that the global demand for English language skills is God’s gift to our generation and that it is a key component in fulfilling the Great Commission.”
Ari J. Rocklin
“God is honored when we respect the laws & rules of the land and will honor our obedience by showing a more effective way to share the Gospel”
Ari J. Rocklin
“I would rather shine the light of Jesus in the dark places than in places flooded with light”
Ari J. Rocklin
“If the M is missing from BAM, it’s not Business as Mission”
Ari J. Rocklin
“When God calls you to do something it will probably be the hardest thing you have ever done, but He will help you get it done and you will grow closer to Him in the process”.
Ari J. Rocklin
“The building up of God’s kingdom and His vision is preceded by His people leaving their comfort zones.” Ari J. Rocklin
“The kingdom of God does not refer to actual territory that belongs to God but His lordship over the individuals who occupy that territory.”
Ari J. Rocklin
“Rejecting Christ because you don’t like Christians is like rejecting golf because you don’t like golfers” Ari J. Rocklin
“Regardless of what people say Christians do not have the market cornered on hypocrisy”
Ari J. Rocklin
“That awkward moment when you find out spiritual warfare is real”
Ari J. Rocklin
Worship of Jesus is rather harmless and risk-free; actually following Jesus and obeying his command of making disciples is neither harmless or risk-free. Ari J. Rocklin
“Closet Orthodox”
Evangelicals who grieve the loss of reverence in church services and visit Orthodox churches to experience it again.
Ari J. Rocklin
Sanctions – a time tested action that results in the leadership of the country entrenching themselves in power while hurting the population.
Ari J. Rocklin
I am fairly certain there have been times when I have left a home stay that the hosts have thought: “Well, he was no angel.” Hebrews 13:2
Ari J. Rocklin
“There will be no grave marker once I have passed. This will deprive my enemies a place to relieve themselves.”
Ari J. Rocklin
“Having been stoned by Rabbis, life threatened multiple times by Muslims, kicked out of Bible school and black listed by the Watch Tower Society must mean I am doing something right.”
Ari J. Rocklin
“Life is too short to eat tasteless tomatoes”. Ari J. Rocklin
” Where two or three are gathered in His name, soon enough there will be four opinions” – Ari J. Rocklin
“Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God.” ― Dietrich Bonhoeffer
No weapon formed against you will prosper. But make no mistake the weapon will be formed.
“Do you see the hand of God in your work?” – Man on Fire
My prayer is that all of you will see the hand of God in your work, business and studies. I want you to feel His pleasure!
“The gospel is less about how to get into the Kingdom of Heaven after you die and more about how to live in the Kingdom of Heaven before you die” Dallas Willard
“The way you store up treasure in heaven is by investing in getting people there” – RW
“I am not afraid of failure; I’m afraid of succeeding in things that don’t matter” – William Carey 1761-1834
“Ordinary people spreading the gospel in extraordinary ways all over the world. Men and women from diverse backgrounds with different gifts and distinct platforms making disciples and multiplying churches through every domain of society in every place on the planet” – David Platt
“Everything I endure is designed to prepare me for serving others more effectively.”
Chuck Swindoll
“When in the Bible does God interrupt someone’s life to say – I have a really easy job for you?”
Geoff Tunnicliffe
If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God, it will make in the end no difference what you have chosen instead – CS Lewis
“The last thing many believers need is to go to another Bible study. They already know far more than they are putting into practice. What they need are serving experiences in which they can exercise their spiritual muscles”.
RW
“ businesses in other cultures that have the potential to revolutionize nations economically and provide platforms for spiritual revival.”
Landa Cope
“We mustn’t be or do business without a mission.”
Mats Tunehag
“Short term missions is the crack cocaine of the church”
Craig Shugart
For those that reject Jesus, He must be the cause of offense, not those who follow Him.
“Until Christians take their faith to work and challenge the culture of the workplace, a godless value system will continue to dominate our society.”
Os. Hillman
“I believe one of the next great moves of God is going to be through the believers in the workplace”
Billy Graham
“The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and the helpless.”
Billy Graham
“The 98% of Christians are who are not in paid church work have never been envisioned or equipped for mission in 95% of their waking lives.”
Mark Greene
“The expansion of the gospel occurs, most naturally, through communities of men and women who live with missional intentionality among their friends and family who are without Christ.”
Doug Nuenke President of The US Navigators
“One of the gravest errors of our time is the dichotomy between the faith which many profess and the practice of their daily lives…
The Christian who shirks his temporal duties shirks his duties towards his neighbor, neglects God himself, and endangers his eternal salvation.
Let Christians follow the example of Christ who worked as a craftsman; let them be proud of the opportunity to carry out their earthly activity in such a way as to integrate human, domestic, professional, scientific and technical enterprises with religious values, under whose supreme direction all things are ordered to the glory of God.”
Second Vatican Council, Gaudium et Spes
The Gospel doesn’t divide the good people from the bad people. It divides the humble—those who admit and repent of their sins—from the proud—those who want to justify their sins.
Tim Keller
“If your heart is right, a disappointing turn of events simply means God has a better plan.”
Wayne Hilsden
“One of the most powerful schemes to undermine the Church is to make it privately engaging, but socially irrelevant.”
Os. Guiness
What does “evangelise” mean? To give witness with joy and simplicity to what we are and what we believe in.
Pope Francis
“We have to re-frame evangelism within the context of discipleship”
– Alan Hirsch
“I’m willing to offend a few Christian friends that I might win a few unbelievers.”
– Phil Metzger
The most effective way to grow your church is to make the “backdoor” less of an alternative. There lies the challenge, how do you do that?
“We have become “the entertainment driven church.”
Michael Patton
“Worship is no longer worship when it reflects the culture around us more than the Christ within us.” A.W. Tozer
“How can we say that the Church wishes to bring us back into the Dark Ages? It was the only thing that brought us out of them.”
GK Chesterton
“Don’t deny God exists and then blame Him for the chaos that results”
“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The scope of a church’s influence is not its Sunday attendance, but the sum total of its congregation’s relationships—most of which are with co-workers and colleagues.
“Any church that is not seriously involved in helping fulfill the Great Commission has forfeited its biblical right to exist”
Oswald J. Smith
“Being culturally appropriate & respectful of authorities, does not stop God’s Spirit from moving & opening closed doors”
Tentmaker in North Korea
Let no man say that God has failed in keeping His word, let man examine himself, and his ways, to see if he has not failed to meet conditions so God can fulfill His promise.
If you meet me and forget me,
you have lost nothing.
If you meet Jesus,
and forget Him,
you have lost everything.
If you reject the Son,
you have rejected the Father,
you have rejected God.
“It’s hard for people really to believe we want them in heaven if we don’t want them in our living room.”
Ralph W Neighbor Jr.
“I am here to help people do better on judgment day”
Greg Livingstone – founder of Frontiers
“I believe that God made me for a purpose. But He also made me fast, and when I run, I feel His pleasure.”
Eric Liddell Gold Medalist 1924 Olympics
Be slow to judge, we know little of what has been suffered, and nothing of what has been resisted.
“Great minds discuss ideas.
Average minds discuss events.
Small minds discuss people.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
In order to speak short upon any subject, think long.
“Failure to prepare is preparation for failure.”
– John Wooden
“Take chances, make mistakes
– Miss Frizzle
“He that fights and runs away, may turn and fight another day; but he that is in battle slain, will never rise to fight again.”
– Tacitus 56-117 AD
A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner
“It is during times of trial that we often rediscover our True North” – Ron W Michalski
“Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.”
“I can’t control the wind but I can adjust the sail.”
Ricky Skaggs
Life’s roughest storms prove the strength of our anchors
“The wind and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigator.”
Edmund Gibbon
“A sailor is an artist whose medium is the wind.”
Webb Chiles
The meek shall inherit the earth, the brave get the ocean.
“Sailing unties the knots in my mind.”
Al Noble
“There is but a plank between a sailor and eternity.”
Thomas Gibbons
“Navigare necesse est”
“To sail is necessary”
Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus
Roman Consul, V century A.D.
“The pessimist complains about the wind;
the optimist expects it to change;
the realist adjusts the sails.”
William Ward
A ship in harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.
“I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning to sail my ship.”
Aeschylus 525 BC