Good thinkers always prime the pump of ideas. They always look for things to get the thinking process started, because what you put in always impacts what comes out.

You will become on the outside, what you believe on the inside.

The only way a church is going to be relevant is to get out of its comfort zone and connect with unchurched people.

The Wrong Person in the Wrong Place = Regression. The Wrong Person in the Right Place = Frustration. The Right Person in the Wrong Place = Confusion. The Right Person in the Right Place = Progression. The Right People in the Right Places = Multiplication.

We all stand on the shoulders of the past generation.

Hope is not strategy. Hope fits with vision, but we must have a strategy and a process to make our vision become a reality.

As a pastor I reinforced my vision over lunches.