Jesus never allowed His theology to get in the way of His ministry.
Creating breathing room financially may lower your standard of living but raise your quality of life.
I can’t make people fall in love with Jesus, but I can arrange dates.
You can’t influence people you refuse to associate with.
Greed is not a financial issue. It’s a heart issue.
What you fear most will determine whether you merely save for the future or give for the future.
Don’t strive to be a well-rounded leader. Instead, discover your zone and stay there. Then delegate everything else.
Will I allow my fear to bind me to mediocrity?
If fear causes you to retreat from your dreams, you will never give the world anything new.
It’s ok for people to feel bad about the wrong things they’ve done.
Why create churches for 50-year-olds and let culture have the students?
Jesus doesn’t take sides; He takes over.
A leader should never risk their ability to make a difference by making an unnecessary point.
God, I want what you want more than I want what I want.
Strange as it may sound, it is more difficult to maintain a faith walk when we begin to see our dreams come true. When hopes become realities it is easy to shift our faith onto the thing we have dreamed of and off of the One who was the source of our provision.
Intervention giving is emotional and the results are measurable.
Most of us are married to a model of ministry and we flirt with the Great Commission.
It’s OK to offend people with the Gospel, but, good grief- let’s don’t offend them with something else.
To be the best next-generation leader you can be, you must enlist the help of others. Self-evaluation is helpful, but evaluation from someone else is essential. You need a leadership coach. Coaching enables a leader to go further faster.
Designing and implementing a strategy for change is a waste of time until you have discovered and embraced the current reality. If you don’t know where you really are, it is impossible to get where you need to be.