Leadership is stewardship, it’s temporary and you’re accountable!
ANDY STANLEYI’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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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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One never accomplishes the will of God by breaking the law of God, violating the principles of God, or ignoring the wisdom of God.
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My kids think you are always supposed to be in a small group and lead one.
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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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Is Christianity fair? It is certainly not fair to God. Christians believe that God sent His Son to die for your sins and mine. Fairness would demand that we die for our own sins.
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God is a God of systems and predictability and order, and God honors planning.
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Progress requires change.
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Your leadership development strategy is perfectly designed to produce the caliber of leader you currently have.
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Two things make a relationship providential: when we hear from God through someone and when we see God in someone.
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Leaders who refuse to listen, will eventually be surrounded by people who have nothing helpful to say.
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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.
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It’s better to make a difference than to make a point.
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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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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.
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What is this generation of students worth? It’s worth everything.
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If you see your brother in need, it doesn’t matter if you already gave somewhere else. You should be open to the idea of God using you to meet your brother’s unexpected need.
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Lord, give me the wisdom to know what’s right and the courage to do what’s right-even when it’s hard.
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Actions don’t only speak louder than words; actions should be used to interpret words.
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Imagine a world where unbelievers were critical of what we believed but envious of how well we treated one another.
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A fool is a person who knows the difference between right and wrong, and chooses to do wrong.
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As long as you are carrying a secret, as long as you are trying to ease your conscience by telling God how sorry you are, you are setting yourself up to repeat the past.
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If you devote yourself to more than yourself … you will have more than yourself to show for yourself.
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Next generation leaders are those who would rather challenge what needs to change and pay the price than remain silent and die on the inside.
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Leaders make things better and that requires change.
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Dreamers dream about things being different. Visionaries envision themselves making a difference.
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Jesus is the hope of the world and the local church is the vehicle of expressing that hope to the world.
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