Church Shift by Sunday Andelaja.
Sunday Andelaja is pastor of the largest church in Europe, the Embassy of God in Kiev, Ukraine. It was his church that played a significant part in one of the most peaceful and joyful revolutions the world has seen in recent times, the Orange Revolution in Ukraine.

“God challenged me to take responsibility for Ukraine. That experience led to the Orange Revolution in Ukraine, which I thought was the ultimate. Now I was sensing that the victories in Ukraine had only been a preparation for this new challenge. [Transforming the modern church worldwide].”

“God is not terribly concerned with church size and church ministries. These are all sidelights to His main goal, which is for all nations to walk after Him in kingdom principles. The church fulfills its mandate when it changes society, not when it’s confined to its sanctuary and Sunday school classrooms. The church is to build the kingdom of God in a nation. The kingdom must overflow into streets and workplaces, governments and entertainment venues. That is its nature, to grow and take over. If you try to keep it to yourself, you lose it.”

“God’s workers are in captivity. They are like prisoners and the pastors are the wardens.”

“Our ambitions need to match the size and scope of Christ’s ambitions in coming to earth. Did the only begotten Son of God humble Himself and come here to be violently and brutally murdered, hung on a cross, despised and mocked, then come back from the dead and preach and teach for forty days just so we could be prosperous and have emotion stirring praise and worship times and pass out colorful leaflets and set up clever web sites, all while people around us are depressed and committing suicide, spreading aids, dying of hunger, wrecking the planet, and much more? I think not.”

“Its a shame that some churches still teach that true ministry is limited to the pulpit. That’s rubbish. Pulpit ministries are to help people discover and be effective in their own spheres of influence. But the vast majority of people are meant to serve outside the pulpit and the fivefold ministries.”

“Many christians have become so religious that they are no longer passionate about what happens in the world.”

“For a long time many Christians thought that they could get away with reading the Bible only and not bothering with an education. That is why Christians have lost their edge to the ungodly in almost every sphere of life.”

“The reforms brought about by Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation form the basis of today’s society. Protestant values are what people in the West live by, and that is why the West has had so much success in creating peaceful, wealthy societies.”

“Some Christians have amazing talents but experience little results because they have not learned to work. Others are nothing but dreamers. They sit and wait for a breakthrough to come. But they forget that success won’t drop into their laps like manna from heaven. People who think that God will do everything Himseld while they just sit around and make big plans are pitiful.”