God didn't make you a leader to respond to stuff all day. He made you a leader to move things forward.

Is the ambient noise level of my life low enough for me to hear the whispers of the Lord?

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.

One thing is that life's great moments evolve from simple acts of cooperation with God's mysterious promptings-nudges that always lean toward finding what's been lost and freeing what's been enslaved .

Church is what you do. Church is who you are. Church is the human outworking of the person of Jesus Christ. Let's not go to Church, let's be the Church.

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

The mark of community is not the absence of conflict. It's the presence of a reconciling spirit.