Every church, every team, every organization demands and deserves a “vision embodier,” someone whose life values and commitments personify the vision. Cut them and they bleed the vision.
If you lower the ambient noise of your life and listen expectantly for those whispers of God, your ears will hear them. And when you follow their lead, your world will be rocked.
The heart and soul of the Christian life is learning to hear God’s voice and then developing the courage to do what he asks us to do.
If the request is wrong, God says, No. If the timing is wrong, God says, Slow. If you are wrong, God says, Grow. But if the request is right, the timing is right and you are right, God says, Go!
Church is what you do. Church is who you are. Church is the human outworking of the person of Jesus Christ. Let’s not go to Church, let’s be the Church.
Prayerless people cut themselves off from God’s prevailing power, and the frequent result is the familiar feeling of being overwhelmed, overrun, beaten down, pushed around, defeated. Surprising numbers of people are willing to settle for lives like that.
If you don’t change your schedule, you’ll be the same person you’ve always been.
The local church is the hope of the world, and its future rests primarily in the hands of its leaders.
Live each day with an open ear toward heaven, eager to respond to any whisper from God.
Storms draw something out of us that calm seas don’t.
The best gift you can give a human being is an introduction to a God who loves them.
Life is too short and the world too compassion-starved for you to keep subsisting in situations that drag you down and curtail your potential to help advance the Kingdom. There’s just too much at stake.
People will not follow a leader with moral incongruities for long. Every time you compromise character you compromise leadership. The foundation of firm leadership is character.
You are the most difficult person you will ever lead.
God made you on purpose, for a purpose.
God didn’t make you a leader to respond to stuff all day. He made you a leader to move things forward.
One of the greatest joys of leadership is assembling and knitting together teams of fantastic people.
I would never want to reach out someday with a soft, uncallused hand-a hand never dirtied by serving-and shake the nail-pierced hand of Jesus.
Is the ambient noise level of my life low enough for me to hear the whispers of the Lord?