The church that doesn't want to grow is saying to the world, "go to hell."

Satan doesn't mind you using your strengths, so long as you do it for personal benefits.

The very first task of leadership is to set the vision for the organization. If you don't set the vision, you're not the leader.

I don't believe my interpretation's inerrant. I don't believe anybody else's interpretation is inerrant, but I do believe the scripture is inerrant. I believe in the plenary, verbal plenary inspiration of scripture, without a doubt.

Whenever you serve others in any way, you are actually serving God.

When you feel abandoned by God yet continue to trust him in spite of your feelings, you worship him in the deepest way.

You are not an accident. Your birth was no mistake or mishap, and your life is no fluke of nature. Your parents may not have planned you, but God did. ... Long before you were conceived by your parents, you were conceived in the mind of God. He thought of you first. It is not fate, nor chance, nor luck, nor coincidence that you are breathing this very moment. You are alive because God wanted to create you!