“Whatever the capacity for human suffering, the church has a greater capacity for healing and wholeness.”

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.

One of the greatest thrills in all of life is to feel the hand of God working through you and to be a part of the working reality of the church engaged in a movement larger than self.

For me, the Church is the enemy.

People like Clyde McPhatter who came out of the black churches – like Sam Cooke and Aretha Franklin – were all church singers who became great pop singers because gospel singing is very close to the blues.

If we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands sink into insignificance by its side.

The church persecuted is the church pure, and the church pure is the church powerful.

The church is not the way to heaven; the church is the sign that points to heaven.

Have you ever wondered what a church full of Pharisees would be like? 1. They would all attend every service 2. They would all tithe 3. They would all work in the church 4. They would all go to hell

I believe that a great number of people are going to die and go to hell because they’re counting on their religiosity in the church instead of their relationship with Jesus to get them to heaven.

A church is an incubator, a nursery, a grade school. You start where people are and move them to where they need to be.