The following 20 quotes caught my attention as I worked through Brian Croft’s Biblical Church Revitalization: Solutions for Dying & Divided Churches (Christian Focus, 2016).
Paul the Revitalizer
Paul instinctively recognized that an entropic principle was at work in the church from the very beginning. Church revitalization was an integral and prominent strategy in all three of his recorded missionary journeys. Without the constant work of reformation and revitalization, local churches will disintegrate into gospel lethargy and ineffectiveness. When this impulse for church revitalization is coupled with his constant agony for the wellbeing of the early churches evidenced in his epistles, Paul’s stature as a church revitalizer is profoundly evident.