Where there’s no progress, there’s no growth. If there’s no growth, there’s no life. Environments void of change are eventually void of life.
Greed is the assumption that it is all for my consumption.
Communicators need to figure out how well do they engage people, and they should not talk one word longer than people are engaged.
What breaks my heart is in the United States hundreds of thousands wake up on a Sunday and church never crosses their mind.
The goal of leadership is not to eradicate uncertainty but rather to navigate it.
Whenever there is fear, there is opportunity. When there is great fear, there is great opportunity.
Who are you and what breaks your heart?
This is why we give up on things that break our heart because it requires change.
Money comes, money goes. But your story stays with you the rest of your life.
If you’re a preacher’s kid, you see the church differently.
Preachers prepare with this fear: ‘Am I going to be able to fill the time?’ The audience never worries about that.
We want time in with our kids not time out.
My kids think you are always supposed to be in a small group and lead one.
What is this generation of students worth? It’s worth everything.
Me and Sandra are thoroughly satisfied customers as parents of kids who came through this Orange model.
Leadership is all about taking people on a journey. The challenge is that most of the time, we are asking people to follow us to places we ourselves have never been.
The issue is: how do you engage the audience? And one of the things I talk to our communicators about is: The outline is great; the stories are great. But how do you engage them? How do you make it feel like we are on a journey, not you are just up there giving me information.
I believe one of the best preparations for marriage is participating in a small group. If a person has learned to be intimate and honest with a few friends before they get married, they will have less reason to fear intimacy after they are married.
Purpose should determine approach. At the end of the day, it’s what we do, not what we purposed to do, that defines our lives and reputations.
If we were able to rewrite the script for the reputation of Christianity, I think we would put the emphasis on developing relationships with non-believers, serving them, loving them, and making them feel accepted, only then would we earn the right to share the gospel.