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Andy Stanley

There is no cramming for a test of character. It always comes as a pop quiz.
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Character Judgement Quiz Test
People pray in one direction but they walk in a different direction, and direction always determines where we end up.
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Different Direction One People
The Church is a family expecting guests.
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Expectation Family God Guest
Leaders make things better and that requires change.
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Christian Leader Leadership
Do you think God can be trusted? Or do yo think you need to take things into your own hands?
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God Hands Need Thinking Trust Yourself
Knowledge alone makes Christians haughty. Application makes us holy.
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Application Christian Holy
Blame enables us to smuggle our issues into our future.
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Blame Future Issues Ourselves
We rob ourselves when we make decisions in the moment with no thought of how those decisions will impact our futures.
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Decision Future Impact Moments Ourselves Thinking
Leaders who refuse to listen, will eventually be surrounded by people who have nothing helpful to say.
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Help Leadership Listening Surround Talk
The insecure leader will interpret critical thinking as critiscism.
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Criticism Insecure Leader Think
If we want to reach the people that no one else is reaching, we’ve got to do things that no one else is doing.
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Inspirational Motivational People Reach
I believe one of the best preparations for marriage is participating in a small group. If a person has learned to be intimate and honest with a few friends before they get married, they will have less reason to fear intimacy after they are married.
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Believe Group Preparation
Which of these statements creates more anxiety in you: ‘There is no God’ or ‘There is no money’?
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Anxiety Creation God Himself Money Statement
Where there’s no progress, there’s no growth. If there’s no growth, there’s no life. Environments void of change are eventually void of life.
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Change Environment Growth Life Progress
I’ve talked to many individuals who want to discuss their problems. But they don’t really have problems. They have chosen to live in the wrong direction. They don’t need a solution. They need a new direction.
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Direction Discussion Individual Problem Solution Talk
Guys that preach verse-by-verse through books of the Bible – that is just cheating. It’s cheating because that would be easy, first of all. That isn’t how you grow people. No one in the Scripture modeled that.
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Book Cheat People

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