Every time I stand to communicate, I want to take one simple truth and lodge it in the heart of the listener. I want them to know that one thing and know what to do with it.
Blame is a change-avoidance strategy.
As your organizational authority increases, your organizational IQ decreases.
Where there is no uncertainty, there is no longer the need for leadership. The greater the uncertainty, the greater the need for leadership. Your capacity as a leader will be determined by how well you learn to deal with uncertainty.
My high school science teacher once told me that much of Genesis is false. But since my high school teacher did not prove he was God by rising from the dead, I’m going to believe Jesus instead.
Leadership is about uncertainty. Deal with it.
There is a big difference between being a leader and actually leading.
Fixing things requires change and change always creates conflict. But that is why you are a leader.
Leaders love progress.
Leaders are all about what isn’t and what-needs-to-be be.
When you harness your leadership skill to your broken heart change happens.
The reason we’re here today is because years ago God broke Reggie Joiner’s heart over the state of children.
God uses broken-hearted leaders.
To understand why, submit and apply.
Preaching on Sunday mornings is such a simple thing, and by complicating it, I think we all do ourselves and the audience a disservice. It is very simple. Here is the model: Make people feel like they need an answer to a question.
In leadership there are always problems to be solved and tensions to be managed. When you try to solve a tension, you create a problem.
We always have more ideas than we can fund.
If you are a local church or non-profit, you live and die with volunteers.
If a volunteer can help us with an immediate need, we can put them in a place to make their greatest contribution.
I’ve concluded that while nobody plans to mess up their life, the problem is that a few of us plan not to. That is, we don’t put the necessary safeguards in place to ensure a happy ending.