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Leaders who refuse to listen, will eventually be surrounded by people who have nothing helpful to say.

Andy Stanley

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
There are many things I can do, but I have to narrow it down to the one thing I must do. The secret of concentration is elimination.
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Concentration Elimination Secret
God is a God of systems and predictability and order, and God honors planning.
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Honor Order Planning
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
Generosity won’t happen unless you make it a priority. The best way to make giving a priority is to make it the very first check you write every month. Before the mortgage. Before groceries or clothing. Before saving. Whatever the amount, do it first.
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Generosity Giving Writing
Giving up something now for something better later is not a sacrifice. It is an investment.
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Better Give Up Investment Sacrifice
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
What is this generation of students worth? It’s worth everything.
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Christian Church Leadership
The goal of leadership is not to eradicate uncertainty but rather to navigate it.
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Goal Navigate Uncertainty
Jesus doesn’t take sides; He takes over.
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God Himself Side
Leaders, if you allow wonder to shut down in you, you will shut it down in everyone around you.
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Everyone Leader Shut Wonder
Pencil in your plans but write your visions in ink.
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Ink Planning Vision Writing
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
You will never maximize your potential in any area without coaching. It is impossible. You may be good. You may even be better than everyone else. But without outside input you will never be as good as you could be.
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Area Goodness Impossible Potential Yourself
Knowledge alone makes Christians haughty. Application makes us holy.
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Application Christian Holy
To understand why, submit and apply.
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Apply Submit Understand

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