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To be developed as a leader, failure must be allowed. Failure only helps us improve.
Develop your reflective will and gain better insight before you say or do something.
I look at tens of thousands of church leaders who still do need a bit of an awakening.
Live each day with an open ear toward heaven, eager to respond to any whisper from God.
Authentic Christianity is a supernatural walk with a living, dynamic, communicating God.
You cannot do leadership without a source of regenerative strength. What is your source?
Every single decision you make as a leader has an effect on the spirit of those you lead.
Is the ambient noise level of my life low enough for me to hear the whispers of the Lord?
Leadership is the catalytic gift that energizes, directs, and empowers all the other gifts.
If you are too busy or too proud to pray with your children, you are too busy and too proud.
Don't steamroll your way into a conversation before establishing any relational credibility.
If leaders don't have an antidote for fear they will be crushed by it. What is your antidote?
Life's great moments evolve from simples acts of cooperation with God's mysterious promptings.
It's incredible to realize that what we do each day has meaning in the big picture of God's plan
The mark of community is not the absence of conflict. It's the presence of a reconciling spirit.
A leader's most valuable asset is not their time but their energy and ability to energize others.
We all have strengths, weaknesses and blind spots. In fact, an average person has 3.4 blind spots.
Those churches have closed down or have been merged with a church that has a more positive vision.
Coaching is the most important servant/leadership element in helping people accomplish their goals.
Destructive fear must be stopped in its tracks or it will undermine the life God invites us to live.
One of the greatest joys of leadership is assembling and knitting together teams of fantastic people.
The local church is the hope of the world, and its future rests primarily in the hands of its leaders.
God didn't make you a leader to respond to stuff all day. He made you a leader to move things forward.
We will probably have to pay a price for devoting our lives to building the kingdom of God. Jesus did.
Whatever the capacity for human suffering, the church has a greater capacity for healing and wholeness.
Leaders need to have a ruthless commitment to resolving relational conflict regardless of how bad it feels.
You can live and lead small, live and lead safe, live and lead selfishly, or you can pursue a grander vision.
He [God] wants us to talk to him as to a friend or father - authentically, reverently, personally, earnestly.
It's a huge responsibility to have influence and to steward it in a way that leads to God-honoring leadership.
God wants to father all of us until we're dead sure of his approval, his guiding power and his promise of heaven.
Religion is spelled DO. Christianity is spelled DONE. One endlessly works to earn love. The other simply receives it!
If it's the last thing I do, I will give every ounce of the rest of my life to helping leaders and churches get better.
The Church will never reach her full redemptive potential until men and women with the leadership gift step up and lead.
Simplified living is about more than doing less. It’s being who God called us to be, with a wholehearted, single-minded focus.
You can never underestimate the amount of energy and frequency you must give to vision casting. You can never underestimate it.
The heart and soul of the Christian life is learning to hear God's voice and then developing the courage to do what he asks us to do.
The leader is the organization's top strategist... systematically envisioning the future and specifically mapping out how to get there.
There isn't a single motivation, thought, act, or word that has slipped out of your being and escaped the full, undivided attention of God.
Dignity does not float down from heaven it cannot be purchased nor manufactured. It is a reward reserved for those who labor with diligence.
Playing around is one thing; following an established regimen is quite another. It's true with exercise equipment and it is true with prayer.
I would never want to reach out someday with a soft, uncallused hand-a hand never dirtied by serving-and shake the nail-pierced hand of Jesus.
If your life is rushing in many directions at once, you are incapable of the kind of deep, unhurried prayer that is vital to the Christian walk.
I hate thinking about it, teaching about it, and writing about it. But the plain truth is that hell is real and real people go there for eternity.
God led Jesus to a cross, not a crown, and yet that cross ultimately proved to be the gateway to freedom and forgiveness for every sinner in the world.
Church is what you do. Church is who you are. Church is the human outworking of the person of Jesus Christ. Let's not go to Church, let's be the Church.
The nature of human beings is such that we tend not to drift into better behaviors. We usually have to be asked by someone to consider taking it up a level.
Thirty years ago, we were in a movie theater and thought it was so cool because we were finally delivered from the horrors of stained glass and wooden pews.
The more varied the environments in which you exercise your leadership gift, the stronger that gift will become. You will become a far more effective leader.
Jesus is not directing the angelic choir, taking long naps, or doing crossword puzzles. He is completely focused on building his church, the hope of the world.
It's not the things I don't understand about the Bible that bother me; it's the things I understand with perfect clarity and don't comply with that keep me up at night.