Today's Quote — March 12, 2007

Okay, so I'm continuing to read Plan A. And There Is No Plan B. and today I come across what I'm pretty sure will be the key thought and central theme of the book:

People's spiritual lives simply cannot be mass-produced.

They're developed one life at a time through a slow process of relational transfer that cannot be bypassed through mass-production ministry.

Let me say it again: You cannot mass-produce Kingdom laborers.

—Dwight Robertson, Plan A. And There Is No Plan B.

Wow. Wow! WOW!

Dwight uses several illustrations, but the best begins toward the bottom of page 86 and ends toward the top of 87. I think I'm going to become a checkers player and armed with my checkers set and a bag of salt challenge many of today's pastors and church staff to a game so I can illustrate this (or try to).