Two things make a relationship providential: when we hear from God through someone and when we see God in someone.
ANDY STANLEYTwo things make a relationship providential: when we hear from God through someone and when we see God in someone.
ANDY STANLEYIt 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.
ANDY STANLEYThe Church is a family expecting guests.
ANDY STANLEYThe goal of leadership is not to eradicate uncertainty but rather to navigate it.
ANDY STANLEYPeople pray in one direction but they walk in a different direction, and direction always determines where we end up.
ANDY STANLEYI can go further and faster with someone coaching me than I can on my own.
ANDY STANLEYYou 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.
ANDY STANLEYThe 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
ANDY STANLEYWithout courage we will simply accumulate a collection of good ideas and regrets.
ANDY STANLEYLord, give me the wisdom to know what’s right and the courage to do what’s right-even when it’s hard.
ANDY STANLEYWe ask our volunteers, “Do you work here?” They say, “Not yet.”
ANDY STANLEYWhen people are convinced you want something FOR them rather than something FROM them, they are less likely to be offended when you challenge them.
ANDY STANLEYYou cannot communicate complicated information to large groups of people. As you increase the number of people, you have to decrease the complexity of the information.
ANDY STANLEYThe Church must stop expecting outsiders to act like insiders while insiders act like outsiders.
ANDY STANLEYThere 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.
ANDY STANLEYThe insecure leader will interpret critical thinking as critiscism.
ANDY STANLEY