“You are the most difficult person you will ever lead.”

If you don’t change your schedule, you’ll be the same person you’ve always been.

We all have strengths, weaknesses and blind spots. In fact, an average person has 3.4 blind spots.

Religion is spelled DO. Christianity is spelled DONE. One endlessly works to earn love. The other simply receives it!

Develop your reflective will and gain better insight before you say or do something.

The worst days of leadership beat the best days of being an onlooker.

Don’t get so addicted to vision that the people feel like equipment

I can write about prayer, you can read about prayer, but sooner or later you have to fall to your knees and just plain pray. Then, and only then, will you begin to operate in the vein of God’s miracle-working ways.

Leadership is the catalytic gift that energizes, directs, and empowers all the other gifts.

Church is what you do. Church is who you are. Church is the human outworking of the person of Jesus Christ. Let’s not go to Church, let’s be the Church.

Vision is a picture of the future that produces passion.

Vision is the most powerful weapon in the leader’s arsenal.

The only way to motivate people is to live a motivated life in front of them

It takes a great deal of courage to follow another person’s lead.

Personally, I’ve never understood inactivity. Why a person would sit when he could soar, be a spectator when he could play, or atrophy when he could develop…is beyond me!

It’s spelled ‘D-O-N-E’, which means that what we could never for ourselves, Christ has already done for us. To become a real Christian is to humbly receive God’s gift of forgiveness and to commit to following His leadership.

Legacy leaders are the only ones wiling to pay the price to fix a broken culture.