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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.

Andy Stanley

Guys 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.
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Book Cheat People
When I count other people’s blessings I lose sight of mine.
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Blessing Lose Myself People
The goal of leadership is not to eradicate uncertainty but rather to navigate it.
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Goal Navigate Uncertainty
The Church must stop expecting outsiders to act like insiders while insiders act like outsiders.
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Act Behavior Expectation
Giving up something now for something better later is not a sacrifice. It is an investment.
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Giving Investment Sacrifice
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.
ANDY STANLEY

Broken Dream People
If a man can predict his own death and resurrection, and pull it off, I just go with whatever that man says
ANDY STANLEY

Death Man Myself Prediction
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
Knowledge alone makes Christians haughty. Application makes us holy.
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Application Christian Holy
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
Guilt rarely results in positive behavior. But gratitude? Great things flow from a heart of gratitude.
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Gratitude Guilty Heart Positive
To understand why, submit and apply.
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Apply Submit Understand
People pray in one direction but they walk in a different direction, and direction always determines where we end up.
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Different Direction One People
God is a God of systems and predictability and order, and God honors planning.
ANDY STANLEY

Honor Order Planning
The leader who refuses to move until the fear is gone will never move. Consequently, he will never lead.
ANDY STANLEY

Gone Leader Moving
Jesus doesn’t take sides; He takes over.
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Emotion Jesus People Side Take

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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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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