Build something with enduring value.

The leader is the organization's top strategist... systematically envisioning the future and specifically mapping out how to get there.

If you're a serious minded leader, you will read. You will read all you can.

Those churches have closed down or have been merged with a church that has a more positive vision.

Obeying the Spirit instead of your own self-centered whims will lead you to places you've never been, challenge you in ways you have never been challenged, and invite levels of sacrifice you never dreamed you could make. This is the power and the promise of full-throttle faith, of living a life fueled solely by God.

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.

Leadership requires a non-stop demand of fortitude from Day 1 to the end.