You can never underestimate the amount of energy and frequency you must give to vision casting. You can never underestimate it.

The Church will never reach her full redemptive potential until men and women with the leadership gift step up and lead.

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 you get to the end will God say, "Well done," or, "What was up with that?"

Your energy and the ability to energize others is more valuable than your time.

Leaders, your God-given job is not merely to preside over something, not to pontificate to your underlings how smart you are, not merely to preserve something from its gradual demise; it's to figure out what God wants to get done in this world, figure out what role you play in that, and then to move something or someone from here to there.

He [God] wants us to talk to him as to a friend or father - authentically, reverently, personally, earnestly.