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Actions don’t only speak louder than words; actions should be used to interpret words.

Andy Stanley

Spiritual maturity is measured in terms of persevering faith, not perfect behavior.
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Behavior Faith Measurement Spiritual
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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Expression Hope Jesus Vehicle World
Leadership is all about taking people on a journey. The challenge is that most of the time, we are asking people to follow us to places we ourselves have never been.
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Challenge Journey Leadership People Place
There is something insincere about a man or woman who repeatedly tells God how much he or she loves Him while refusing to obey Him.
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Himself Man Obedience Refuse Repeat Sincere Woman
People do not plan to mess up their lives. They just don’t plan not to.
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Deep Live Mess People Planning
God is a God of systems and predictability and order, and God honors planning.
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Honor Order Planning
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.
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Direction Happiness People Point Smart Stupidity Wisdom Yourself
We ask our volunteers, “Do you work here?” They say, “Not yet.”
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Christian Leadership Volunteer
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
It isn’t about who is ‘for’ or ‘against’ you, it’s about who you are for.
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God Support Yourself
Nothing has stolen more dreams, dashed more hopes, broken up more families, and messed up more people psychologically than our propensity to disregard God’s commands regarding sexual purity.
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Break Up Dreams Family Sexuality
The more conscious I am of the work God has yet to do in me, the less critical I am about what he has yet to do in you
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Conscious Criticism God Work Yourself
One of the most compelling arguments for the Christian faith is the simple fact that it survived.
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Christian Faith Simple
Giving up something now for something better later is not a sacrifice. It is an investment.
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Giving Investment Sacrifice
Celebrate what God has given others. Leverage what God has given you.
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Celebration God Leverage Yourself
Your friends will determine the quality and direction of your life.
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Determination Direction Friendship Life Quality Yourself
Leaders make things better and that requires change.
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Christian Leader Leadership
Here’s something to think about: If God appeared to you and asked, “Why should I let you into heaven?” how would you answer?
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Christian God Religious
The goal of leadership is not to eradicate uncertainty but rather to navigate it.
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Goal Navigate Uncertainty
Peace is a fruit of the Spirit, not the byproduct of accumulated wealth.
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Fruit Peace Spirit Wealth
Many years from now, what would you like people to line up and thank you for?
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Line People Thankful Time
Leadership is stewardship, it’s temporary and you’re accountable!
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Accountable Leadership Temporary Yourself
Success is remaining faithful to the process God has laid out for you.
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Faith God Success Yourself
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
When your memories exceed your dreams, the end is near.
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Dreams End Excess Memories
Learning never takes place while you’re talking.
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Learning Place Talk Yourself
80% of your problems are not PEOPLE problems … they are SYSTEM problems, because systems create the behaviors of people.
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Behavior People Problem

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