The leader is the organization's top strategist... systematically envisioning the future and specifically mapping out how to get there.

If you lower the ambient noise of your life and listen expectantly for those whispers of God, your ears will hear them. And when you follow their lead, your world will be rocked.

People will not follow a leader with moral incongruities for long. Every time you compromise character you compromise leadership. The foundation of firm leadership is character.

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

If you are anything like me you'll have to fight tooth-and-nail to stay in the game (evangelism). Because although the home runs have been invigorating, my batting average over the years is abysmally low.

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

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.