I’m reviewing Will Mancini’s Church Unique: How Missional Leaders Cast Vision, Capture Culture, and Create Movement for next month’s unit of our online Cultivate program. I came across this quote:

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea. – Antoine de Saint Exupery

With just a little re-wording it so appropriately speaks to leaders who are starting churches out of the culture:

If you want to start a church, don’t drum up people to start a service, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless faces who are far away from God.