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The Church must stop expecting outsiders to act like insiders while insiders act like outsiders.

Andy Stanley

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
Our culture highlights all the trouble, all the drama, all the affairs and all the junk. Do not believe for a minute that any of that reflects reality. That does not have to be your future. The handwriting is not written on the wall.
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Believe Drama Minute Wall
Spiritual maturity is measured in terms of persevering faith, not perfect behavior.
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Behavior Faith Measurement Spiritual
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
It takes a habit to break a habit. You can pray every day for a generous heart, but until you start acting in that direction, nothing’s going to change.
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Break Change Day Direction Generosity Habit Prayer Yourself
No matter how much money we have or make, we will probably never consider ourselves rich. The biggest challenge facing rich people is that they’ve lost they’re ability to recognize that they’re rich.
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Challenge Matter People
Progress requires change.
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Change One Liner Progress
Leaders who refuse to listen, will eventually be surrounded by people who have nothing helpful to say.
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Help Leadership Listening Surround Talk
Do for one what you wish you could do for everyone.
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Compassionate Kindness Oneself Yourself
You can’t resist the will of God and receive the grace of God at the same time.
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God Grace Resistance Time Yourself
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
It isn’t about who is ‘for’ or ‘against’ you, it’s about who you are for.
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Feel Inspiration Motivation People
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
The value of a life is always measured by how much of it is given away.
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Generosity Life Value Yourself
Celebrate what God has given others. Leverage what God has given you.
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Celebration God Leverage Yourself
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
God, I want what you want more than I want what I want.
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God Myself Religious Surrender Trust Yourself
Without courage we will simply accumulate a collection of good ideas and regrets.
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Courage Goodness Ideas Regret Simplicity
People are far more interested in what works than what’s true.
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Interest People True Work
My high school science teacher once told me that much of Genesis is false. But since my high school teacher did not prove he was God by rising from the dead, I’m going to believe Jesus instead.
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Believe Death Fake Myself Science Teacher
Leaders are all about what isn’t and what-needs-to-be be.
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Christian Church Leadership Need
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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Broken Dream People
Your leadership development strategy is perfectly designed to produce the caliber of leader you currently have.
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Development Leader Strategy
God’s extravagant generosity toward us compels us to be extravagantly generous toward others.
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Christian Extravantly God Religious
It’s better to make a difference than to make a point.
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Better Differences Make
Two things make a relationship providential: when we hear from God through someone and when we see God in someone.
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God Provide Relationship See
Intervention giving is emotional and the results are measurable.
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Emotional Giving Result

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