If your identity is found in Christ, then it matters less and less what people think of you.
What you do is your history. What you set in motion is your legacy.
Your life is not your own: it belongs to God. To “be yourself” is to be and do what God wants you to be and do, knowing that God created you for a mission and knows you and your mission better than you do.
The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create.
God did His most magnificent work while Adam was asleep. This episode contains and important insight: When man rests, God works.
The true leader makes each team member twice the person they were before.
Jesus invested everything he had in a team. The Bible knows nothing about solo ministry, only team ministry.
The strength of the church is not the strength of its institutions but the authenticity of its witness.
The essence of leadership is relationship; influencing people to achieve things together that can’t be achieved alone.
Stagnation is death. If you don’t change, you die. It’s that simple. It’s that scary.
What is the difference between a living thing and a dead thing? In the medical world, a clinical definition of death is a body that does not change. Change is life. Stagnation is death. If you don’t change, you die. It’s that simple. It’s that scary.
When I was learned, knowledge was everything. Now that I’m a learner, kindness is everything.
Too many Christians want to change the world not because they love the world but because they hate the world.
When Jesus got to the point when most people today are thinking of retirement, he goes – ‘time to save the world!’
As a cosmion incarnating the cells of a new body, New Lights will function as transitional vessels through which transforming energy can renew the divine image in the world, moving postmoderns from one state of embodiment to another.
People who minister worldwide to protect and conserve the environment are of no lower status than those who minister to plant churches.
The greater the amount of knowledge you accumulate, the bigger your island gets, but the greater the shoreline of the unknown becomes. In short, the more you know, the more you know you don’t know.
The church must provide postmoderns with an alternity of rituals by which they can turn and tune to one another and feel connected to the cosmos.