No matter your title, people will not follow you if they don’t trust you. Whether you are just taking over a team or working to implement large-scale change within one, you are guaranteed to run into resistance if you haven’t taken time to establish a foundation with the people you oversee before turning their worlds upside down.

Without a vision people and the church become self-centered. People start finding fault with one another and the church self-destructs.

The greatest of all insights is that we cannot be tomorrow what we do not do today.

Credibility is a leader's currency. With it, he or she is solvent; without it, he or she is bankrupt.

I would rather be viewed by the reader as I'm just taking a journey with you, and here's what I'm learning, what are you learning? Oh, you do this better than me. Than to be viewed as kind of like an authority.

The last decision I made was my health when I had a heart attack when I was 51.

Leaders are less interested in their position and more interested in their positive impact on others.