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If the Old and New Testament teach us anything, they teach us that nothing is too difficult for God. What he originates, he orchestrates.

Andy Stanley

Giving up something now for something better later is not a sacrifice. It is an investment.
ANDY STANLEY

Better Give Up Investment Sacrifice
Preaching on Sunday mornings is such a simple thing, and by complicating it, I think we all do ourselves and the audience a disservice. It is very simple. Here is the model: Make people feel like they need an answer to a question.
ANDY STANLEY

Morning Simple Sunday
I can’t make people fall in love with Jesus, but I can arrange dates.
ANDY STANLEY

Arrange Fall In Love God Myself People
We rob ourselves when we make decisions in the moment with no thought of how those decisions will impact our futures.
ANDY STANLEY

Decision Future Impact Moments Ourselves Thinking
The starting block for people who are going to stay in love is mutual submission.
ANDY STANLEY

Love Start Stay Submission
When happiness points in one direction while wisdom, truth, integrity, and common sense point in another, that’s when really smart people start doing really stupid things.
ANDY STANLEY

Direction Happiness People Point Smart Stupidity Wisdom Yourself
Dreamers dream about things being different. Visionaries envision themselves making a difference.
ANDY STANLEY

Difference Different Dreams Vision
It isn’t about who is ‘for’ or ‘against’ you, it’s about who you are for.
ANDY STANLEY

God Support Yourself
Leaders make things better and that requires change.
ANDY STANLEY

Christian Leader Leadership
Maintaining peace with God is more important than keeping pace with someone else.
ANDY STANLEY

God Important Maintain Oneself Peace
What percentage should you give? I tell people to start with 10 percent because the Bible writers have a lot to say about the tithe, which means, “tenth.” For some people, that’s extremely uncomfortable. But so is a colonoscopy, and those save countless lives.
ANDY STANLEY

Give Mean People Percentage
What could be and should be can’t be until God is ready for it to be.
ANDY STANLEY

God Patience Time
We ask our volunteers, “Do you work here?” They say, “Not yet.”
ANDY STANLEY

Christian Leadership Volunteer
The Church must stop expecting outsiders to act like insiders while insiders act like outsiders.
ANDY STANLEY

Act Behavior Expectation
Leaders are all about what isn’t and what-needs-to-be be.
ANDY STANLEY

Christian Church Leadership Need
80% of your problems are not PEOPLE problems … they are SYSTEM problems, because systems create the behaviors of people.
ANDY STANLEY

Behavior People Problem

If the Old and New Testament teach us anything, they teach us that nothing is too difficult for God. What he originates, he orchestrates.

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