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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.

Andy Stanley

The 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 STANLEY

Conscious Criticism God Work Yourself
Stop looking for solutions to problems and start looking for the right path.
ANDY STANLEY

Path Problem Right Solution
80% of your problems are not PEOPLE problems … they are SYSTEM problems, because systems create the behaviors of people.
ANDY STANLEY

Behavior Creation People Problem System Yourself
Is Christianity fair? It is certainly not fair to God. Christians believe that God sent His Son to die for your sins and mine. Fairness would demand that we die for our own sins.
ANDY STANLEY

Believe Christian Son
Imagine a world where unbelievers were critical of what we believed but envious of how well we treated one another.
ANDY STANLEY

Believe Criticism Imagination Oneself Treat
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.
ANDY STANLEY

Area Goodness Impossible Potential Yourself
The leader who refuses to move until the fear is gone will never move. Consequently, he will never lead.
ANDY STANLEY

Gone Leader Moving
Your leadership development strategy is perfectly designed to produce the caliber of leader you currently have.
ANDY STANLEY

Development Leader Strategy
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.
ANDY STANLEY

Believe Death Fake Myself Science Teacher
In the shadow of my hurt, forgiveness feel like a decision to reward my enemy. But in the shadow of the cross, forgiveness is merely a gift from one undeserving soul to another.
ANDY STANLEY

Forgiveness Gift Hurt Myself Shadow Soul
There is something insincere about a man or woman who repeatedly tells God how much he or she loves Him while refusing to obey Him.
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Himself Man Obedience Refuse Repeat Sincere Woman
Dreamers dream about things being different. Visionaries envision themselves making a difference.
ANDY STANLEY

Difference Different Dreams Vision
Two things make a relationship providential: when we hear from God through someone and when we see God in someone.
ANDY STANLEY

God Provide Relationship See
There 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 STANLEY

Ability Freedom Story Yourself
Vions are born in the soul of a man or woman who is consumed with the tension between what is and what could be.
ANDY STANLEY

Men Soul Tension Vision
The Church must stop expecting outsiders to act like insiders while insiders act like outsiders.
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Act Behavior Expectation

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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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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