It isn’t about who is ‘for’ or ‘against’ you, it’s about who you are for.
ANDY STANLEYGuys 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.
More Andy Stanley Quotes
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The Church is a family expecting guests.
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The goal of leadership is not to eradicate uncertainty but rather to navigate it.
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Celebrate what God has given others. Leverage what God has given you.
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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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Learning never takes place while you’re talking.
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Good people don’t go to heaven. Forgiven people go to heaven.
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Knowledge alone makes Christians haughty. Application makes us holy.
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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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Do for one what you wish you could do for everyone.
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Preaching on Sunday mornings is such a simple thing, and by complicating it, I think we all do ourselves and the audience a disservice. It is very simple. Here is the model: Make people feel like they need an answer to a question.
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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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Leaders, if you allow wonder to shut down in you, you will shut it down in everyone around you.
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Grace is the vehicle God uses on occasion to ensure that we get precisely what we dont deserve.
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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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Vions are born in the soul of a man or woman who is consumed with the tension between what is and what could be.
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