To be developed as a leader, failure must be allowed. Failure only helps us improve.

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

We made a mistake. What we should have done when people crossed the line of faith and become Christians, we should have started telling people and teaching people that they have to take responsibility to become 'self feeders.' We should have gotten people, taught people, how to read their bible between service, how to do the spiritual practices much more aggressively on their own.

It's a huge responsibility to have influence and to steward it in a way that leads to God-honoring leadership.

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

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.

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.