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.
Charisma on stage is not necessarily evidence of the Holy Spirit.
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.
Praying for revival equates to blaming God for the condition of your local church.
Every local church has a leader but it seems so few local churches are being led.
Blame is a change-avoidance strategy.
What is this generation of students worth? It's worth everything.
The church should be the safest place on the planet to talk about anything, including same-sex attraction.
Try to do for the next generation of church leaders what the previous generation of church leaders has not done for you.
Why create churches for 50-year-olds and let culture have the students?
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.
The church must capture and keep the minds and hearts of students.
Fixing things requires change and change always creates conflict. But that is why you are a leader.
If you're a preacher's kid, you see the church differently.
Leaders are all about what isn't and what-needs-to-be be.
Leaders love progress.
On day one, the Church wasn't for church people because there weren't any church people.
Progress requires change.
People are not on a truth quest; they are on a happiness quest. They will continue to attend your church - even if they don't share your beliefs - as long as they find the content engaging and helpful.
The Church must stop expecting outsiders to act like insiders while insiders act like outsiders.
The Church is a family expecting guests.
Jesus is the hope of the world and the local church is the vehicle of expressing that hope to the world.