Your leadership development strategy is perfectly designed to produce the caliber of leader you currently have.
Your talent and giftedness as a leader have the potential to take you farther than your character can sustain you. That ought to scare you.
Most of us wake up every day and make decision that will make us happy, and generally decisions that will make us happy right then in the moment or that day. We are not really on a truth quest.
Success means your options multiply. Size increases complexity, and complexity can confuse vision.
Uncertainty is not an indication of poor leadership; it underscores the need for leadership.
The insecure leader will interpret critical thinking as critiscism.
Praying for revival equates to blaming God for the condition of your local church.
If you don’t clarify your goal, you’ll never identify the best approach.
Leaders fix things that are broken.
What people pray for will tell you more than anything else whether they are locked into the vision and priorities of the church.
Telling someone they’re wrong is not the same as leading or inspiring them to do what’s right.
Progress requires change.
Authority does not equal competency.
You can’t resist the will of God and receive the grace of God at the same time.
Rich people have the potential to reach a point where they see money as the source of their safety and security.
Generosity helps us cultivate awareness of things that really matter. Opportunities that make a real difference in the world.
I’m not a philanthropist. While I care about the poor, the issue of local or global poverty doesn’t keep me up at night.
While generosity may be the antidote for the dizzying effects of wealth, your appetite for more may function as an antidote against God-honoring generosity. Your appetite for more stuff, status, and security has the potential to quash your efforts to be generous. And that’s a problem.
As counterintuitive as it seems, generosity begins wherever you are. It is important to make generosity a priority.
There are some rich people who, no matter how much God sends their way, never seem to put their hope in their riches.