Andy Stanley Leadership Quotations

The church wasn't an organization in the first century. They weren't writing checks or buying property. The church has matured and developed over the years. But for some reason, the last thing to change is the structure of leadership.

No one ever has the resources they need.

Every story of change there is always someone who didn't have the resources or the network they needed and did something anyway.

"How" is what kills vision and dreams. Don't ask "How" until we figure out the "What". The "How" can kill the "What".

Resources follow vision.

If a leader goes with their gut, it should be after listening first to people they trust.

If you want to know if I'm a Godly man, follow me home.

Charisma on stage is not necessarily evidence of the Holy Spirit.

When the house is on fire, don't tell me what your spiritual gift is. Just grab a hose and put out the fire.

In a volunteer organization there has to be time for community.

Two primary ways to keep volunteers motivated - Food and T-shirts.

We ask our volunteers, "Do you work here?" They say, "Not yet."

The more you expect from a volunteer the more you get.

If you are a local church or non-profit, you live and die with volunteers.

We always have more ideas than we can fund.

In leadership there are always problems to be solved and tensions to be managed. When you try to solve a tension, you create a problem.

Every local church has a leader but it seems so few local churches are being led.

Blame is a change-avoidance strategy.

We want time in with our kids not time out.

There is a big difference between being a leader and actually leading.

What is this generation of students worth? It's worth everything.

The reason we're here today is because years ago God broke Reggie Joiner's heart over the state of children.

My kids think you are always supposed to be in a small group and lead one.

God uses broken-hearted leaders.

Me and Sandra are thoroughly satisfied customers as parents of kids who came through this Orange model.

We are not all leaders. We are called leaders.

You are where you are because the generation before you paid attention to their broken heart.

Who are you and what breaks your heart?

Only do what only you can do.

This is why we give up on things that break our heart because it requires change.

Leaders fix things that are broken.

Fixing things requires change and change always creates conflict. But that is why you are a leader.

Preacher's kids need another consistent voice in their lives over the years.

What breaks my heart is in the United States hundreds of thousands wake up on a Sunday and church never crosses their mind.

When you harness your leadership skill to your broken heart change happens.

Leaders are all about what isn't and what-needs-to-be be.

Leaders love progress.

Progress requires change.

Leaders make things better and that requires change.

Many years from now, what would you like people to line up and thank you for?

When Nehemiah's heart was broken he paid attention to his broken heart.

If a volunteer can help us with an immediate need, we can put them in a place to make their greatest contribution.

T-shirts create a sense of "We". Food says, "We don't mind spending money on you."

You have no idea what hangs in the balance of your decision on what to do with the burden God put in your heart.

Leaders who refuse to listen, will eventually be surrounded by people who have nothing helpful to say