It takes a great deal of courage to follow another person’s lead.
The Church will never reach her full redemptive potential until men and women with the leadership gift step up and lead.
Build something with enduring value.
Self awareness allows you to self-correct.
Truly, spiritual courage is on the endangered character-quality list.
Effective leaders do not fear passion. They welcome it. But from time to time passionate discussions digress into personal attacks, and real people get really hurt. In my view, leaders must head that off before it happens.
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.
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.
It’s a huge responsibility to have influence and to steward it in a way that leads to God-honoring leadership.
You cannot do leadership without a source of regenerative strength. What is your source?
Our minds, like the needle in that compass, can focus on a variety of subjects throughout the day. But in the end, when they’re left alone to settle, they’ll focus on the objects of our greatest affection.
When you get to the end will God say, “Well done,” or, “What was up with that?”
Enjoy every single day you get to lead because it will be over in a blink.
The worst days of leadership beat the best days of being an onlooker.
You can never underestimate the amount of energy and frequency you must give to vision casting. You can never underestimate it.
You don’t have to be any more talented, any richer, any slimmer, any smarter, any more or less of anything to partner with God. All you have to be is willing to be used by him in everyday way.
If you’re a serious minded leader, you will read. You will read all you can.
If you are too busy or too proud to pray with your children, you are too busy and too proud.
Leadership grit begets grit. Lead by example.
We all have strengths, weaknesses and blind spots. In fact, an average person has 3.4 blind spots.