If you want to continue leading, you must continue changing.
If you leave the church service thinking about how good the pastor was, he has missed the mark. If you leave consumed with Christ, the pastor has been used by the Lord.
The will of God is found in the Word of God. The more a person grows, the more he begins to think instinctively and habitually from a divine perspective.
The reason God can’t use you more than He wants to may well be that you are not prepared.
It is not about where you are but in what direction you’re moving. God is into character, not credentials.
Maybe you’ve attended church for five, ten, or even twenty years, but you’ve never cracked open the Bible to prepare yourself for effectiveness as His instrument. You’ve been under the Word, but not in it for yourself.
Succeeding in business and failing at home is a cop-out. For no success in the workplace will ever make up for failure at home.
Leaders are readers, and readers are leaders.
If you cannot be accused of exclusivity, you are not discipling.
Don’t put eggs under dead chickens.
So it is with scripture. The word of God is there, able to transform your life. But you must probe for it. You have to penetrate the surface with more than just a cursory glance.
Vision without integrity is not mission – it’s manipulation.
Children are not looking for perfect parents, but they are looking for honest parents.
In the midst of a generation screaming for answers, Christians are stuttering.
The teacher has not taught until the student has learned.
The Bible is owned, read on occasion, even taken to church-but not studied.
God is still in the process of dispensing gifts, and He uses ordinary individuals like us to develop those gifts in other people.
Has it ever occurred to you that love is the greatest positive force in existence?
The Bible is the divine means of developing spiritual maturity. There is no other way.
You never graduate from the school of discipleship.