Celebrate what God has given others. Leverage what God has given you.

If we want to reach the people that no one else is reaching, we've got to do things that no one else is doing.

Your talent and giftedness as a leader have the potential to take you farther than your character can sustain you. That ought to scare you.

In leadership there are always problems to be solved and tensions to be managed. When you try to solve a tension, you create a problem.

Try to do for the next generation of church leaders what the previous generation of church leaders has not done for you.

The church should be the safest place on the planet to talk about anything, including same-sex attraction.

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.