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He [God] wants us to talk to him as to a friend or father – authentically, reverently, personally, earnestly.

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Don’t get so addicted to vision that the people feel like equipment
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Equipment People Vision
Most people feel best about themselves when they have given their very best.
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Feel Given People
Many leadership problems are driven by low self-awareness.
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Awareness Problem Self
Truly, spiritual courage is on the endangered character-quality list.
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Character Quality Spiritual
Wise leaders understand that the single greatest determinant of whether followers will ever own a vision deeply is the extent to which whose followers believe the leader will own it.
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Believe Leader Wise
Jesus is not directing the angelic choir, taking long naps, or doing crossword puzzles. He is completely focused on building his church, the hope of the world.
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Jesus Long Naps
You can live and lead small, live and lead safe, live and lead selfishly, or you can pursue a grander vision.
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Pursue Safe Vision
The Lord’s Prayer is an excellent model, but it was never intended to be a magical incantation to get God’s attention. Jesus gave this prayer as a pattern to suggest the variety of elements that should be included when we pray.
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Attention Intended Jesus Prayer
Effective leaders do not fear passion. They welcome it. But from time to time passionate discussions digress into personal attacks, and real people get really hurt. In my view, leaders must head that off before it happens.
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Attack Hurt Passion Personal Real
We all have strengths, weaknesses and blind spots. In fact, an average person has 3.4 blind spots.
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Average Blind Spots Weakness
Everyone wins when a leader gets better
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Better Leading Winning
It’s a huge responsibility to have influence and to steward it in a way that leads to God-honoring leadership.
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Influence Responsibility Way
When you get to the end will God say, “Well done,” or, “What was up with that?”
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Done Ends Wells
If you’re a serious minded leader, you will read. You will read all you can.
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Leader Read Serious
God wants to father all of us until we’re dead sure of his approval, his guiding power and his promise of heaven.
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Appreciate Father Heaven
It’s not the things I don’t understand about the Bible that bother me; it’s the things I understand with perfect clarity and don’t comply with that keep me up at night.
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Bother Clarity Night Perfect Understand

He [God] wants us to talk to him as to a friend or father – authentically, reverently, personally, earnestly.

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