- Preach faith, not frustrations.
- Never obsess on one individual in the congregation.
- The Word is food, not weaponry.
- Pull, don’t push.
- Beating down a door is a criminal act.
- Questions are not threats.
- 100% success is not possible.
- People do love you. Love them back.
- Not everyone who responds cheers.
- A cheer leader succeeds if the audience cheers, if that’s all you want.
- You may be full-time, but your people are not.
- Don’t force everyone into the same mold.
- Not every fight is a good fight.
- In the church, silence does not give consent.
- You get what you preach.
- Training is the hardest, but most rewarding work.
- Talk to children if you want vibrancy.
- Talk to young people if you want to know what’s going on.
- Talk to working people if you want to know about stressors.
- Talk only to a few elites if you want to be warped.
- Talk to the elderly if you want to know truth.
- Talk to your family if you want to know what others are thinking.
- Talk to nobody if you want to shrink into irrelevance.
- Talk to God if you want direction.
- People change through education, not sensation.
- Make form follow function.
- The seeds of truth need the preparation of the plow.
- Diversity for diversity’s sake is demeaning.
- Lead people to God; don’t become their god.
- Don’t blink. Nothing is NOT happening.
- Leadership is largely optics.
- To love is not only to feel, but to act.
- You cannot say yes to something without saying no to something else.
- Inspiration is a quivering mass of protoplasm unless you have a skeletal structure.
- The will of God most often guts the will of man.
- Leadership needs consensus, but often forgoes companionship.