If your life is rushing in many directions at once, you are incapable of the kind of deep, unhurried prayer that is vital to the Christian walk.

If you’re a serious minded leader, you will read. You will read all you can. You will read when you feel like it, and you will read when you don’t. You will do whatever you have to do to increase your leadership input, because you know as well as I do that it will make you better.

Legacy leaders are the only ones wiling to pay the price to fix a broken culture.

It's incredible to realize that what we do each day has meaning in the big picture of God's plan

There is nothing like the local church when the local church is working right.

There isn't a single motivation, thought, act, or word that has slipped out of your being and escaped the full, undivided attention of God.

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