The nature of human beings is such that we tend not to drift into better behaviors. We usually have to be asked by someone to consider taking it up a level.

Effective leaders do not fear passion. They welcome it. But from time to time passionate discussions digress into personal attacks, and real people get really hurt. In my view, leaders must head that off before it happens.

When God transforms the life of just one leader, that leader can transform a church. When one church is transformed, you can transform a community. And when enough churches are thriving, you can affect a region, a country, and eventually the entire world with the positive, life-changing power of Jesus Christ and the redeeming and restoring work of his people.

Nothing that matters in this world happens unless leaders lead it.

The more varied the environments in which you exercise your leadership gift, the stronger that gift will become. You will become a far more effective leader.

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

It's one thing to see a vision; it's another thing to be seized by a vision.