Your culture will only ever be as healthy as the senior leader wants it to be.
Vision is the most powerful weapon in the leader’s arsenal.
If we were to boil down Christianity to its core, we’d be left with simply this: relationship with God. The living, loving God of the universe has spoken throughout history, and still speaks today – not just to pastors or priests, but to anyone who will listen. God will speak to you.
Legacy leaders are the only ones wiling to pay the price to fix a broken culture.
If you’re a serious minded leader, you will read. You will read all you can. You will read when you feel like it, and you will read when you don’t. You will do whatever you have to do to increase your leadership input, because you know as well as I do that it will make you better.
Our conduct will never change God’s character.
Leadership in church is one of the biggest challenges that the Church is facing because without strong leadership, the church rarely lives out its redemptive potentials.
Leaders need to have a ruthless commitment to resolving relational conflict regardless of how bad it feels.
Playing around is one thing; following an established regimen is quite another. It’s true with exercise equipment and it is true with prayer.
Don’t get so addicted to vision that the people feel like equipment.
People won’t give their best unless their leader challenges them to do so.
I hate thinking about it, teaching about it, and writing about it. But the plain truth is that hell is real and real people go there for eternity.
God wants to father all of us until we’re dead sure of his approval, his guiding power and his promise of heaven.
People join organizations, they leave managers.
You’re a leader. It’s your job to keep your passion hot. Do whatever you have to do, read whatever you have to read, go wherever you have to go to stay fired up. And don’t apologize to anybody.
Vision is a picture of the future that produces passion.
This is the only leadership life I get, my one and only shot at following God the way I feel him prompting me to do so. This isn’t some pre-game warm-up. It’s the game, and the clock is ticking!
There isn’t a single motivation, thought, act, or word that has slipped out of your being and escaped the full, undivided attention of God.
Whenever you see something going well – whenever light begins to chase back the darkness that threatens to engulf our world – look closely. There stands a leader who is holding that candle.
We live in a world that is crying out for better leadership.