Leaders make things better and that requires change.

If you feed an appetite, it grows. Satisfying an appetite does not diminish it. It expands it. To diminish an appetite, you have to starve it.

Charisma on stage is not necessarily evidence of the Holy Spirit.

Selfless, generous, compassionate living is unassailable.

As a leader it is your job to protect the missional integrity of the Jesus gathering to which you have been called. It is your responsibility to see to it that the church under your care continues as a gathering of people in process; a place where the curious, the unconvinced, the skeptical, the used-to-believe and the broken, as well as the committed, informed and sold-out come together around Peter's declaration that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God.

Praying for revival equates to blaming God for the condition of your local church.

Success means your options multiply. Size increases complexity, and complexity can confuse vision.