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People do not plan to mess up their lives. They just don’t plan not to.

Andy Stanley

Telling someone they’re wrong is not the same as leading or inspiring them to do what’s right.
ANDY STANLEY

Difference Inspirational Leadership Right Wrong Yourself
Many years from now, what would you like people to line up and thank you for?
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Line People Thankful Time
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
What is this generation of students worth? It’s worth everything.
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Christian Church Leadership
There is an appropriate way to use your story, not as an excuse but as a testimony to God’s ability to free you from the past.
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Ability Freedom Story Yourself
The Church is a family expecting guests.
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Expectation Family God Guest
Any fear associated with giving to God’s kingdom is irrational. It’s on par with a farmer who, out of fear of losing his seed, refuses to plant his fields.
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Farmer Fear God Himself Irrational Lose
Not the one who knows the most, but the one who loves faithfully and consistently the most, is a true follower of Jesus.
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Faith God Love Oneself True
Complexity is the enemy of clarity
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Clarity Complexity Enemy
At the end of the day, God’s love for me, for you, and for the world is settled at the cross.
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Day End God Limitation Love World Yourself
Stop looking for solutions to problems and start looking for the right path.
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Path Problem Right Solution
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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Difficult Old Originate Teaching
Intervention giving is emotional and the results are measurable.
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Emotional Giving Result
I can go further and faster with someone coaching me than I can on my own.
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Coach Faster Own
What you fear most will determine whether you merely save for the future or give for the future.
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Determine Fear Future Give
Where there is no uncertainty, there is no longer the need for leadership. The greater the uncertainty, the greater the need for leadership. Your capacity as a leader will be determined by how well you learn to deal with uncertainty.
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Determined Leader Need
The starting block for people who are going to stay in love is mutual submission.
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Love Start Stay Submission
You have no idea the numbers of people that God may want to influence through you.
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God Ideas Influence People Yourself
To understand why, submit and apply.
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Apply Submit Understand
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
The value of a life is always measured by how much of it is given away.
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Generosity Life Value Yourself
People are far more interested in what works than what’s true.
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Interest People True Work
The health of your marriage tomorrow will be determined by the decisions you make today.
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Day Decision Determination Health Marriage Yourself
What could be and should be can’t be until God is ready for it to be.
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God Patience Time
We don’t drift into good directions. We discipline and prioritize ourselves there.
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Discipline Prioritize Stanley
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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God Long Past Sorry Tell
The leader who refuses to move until the fear is gone will never move. Consequently, he will never lead.
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Gone Leader Moving

People do not plan to mess up their lives. They just don’t plan not to.

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