Andy Stanley Quotes About Church
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If you're not looking forward to church this morning perhaps it's time to look for a church.
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Who are you and what breaks your heart?
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When you harness your leadership skill to your broken heart change happens.
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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.
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Every local church has a leader but it seems so few local churches are being led.
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There is a big difference between being a leader and actually leading.
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The Church must stop expecting outsiders to act like insiders while insiders act like outsiders.
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The church should be the safest place on the planet to talk about anything, including same-sex attraction.
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Many years from now, what would you like people to line up and thank you for?
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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.
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On day one, the Church wasn't for church people because there weren't any church people.
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We are not all leaders. We are called leaders.
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I want people to help me reanchor the church to undeniable, mind-boggling, culture-shifting demonstration of compassion and generosity. Because, generosity was the hallmark of the early church.
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We ask our volunteers, "Do you work here?" They say, "Not yet."
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Charisma on stage is not necessarily evidence of the Holy Spirit.
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The more you expect from a volunteer the more you get.
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"How" is what kills vision and dreams. Don't ask "How" until we figure out the "What". The "How" can kill the "What".
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Why create churches for 50-year-olds and let culture have the students?
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Jesus is the hope of the world and the local church is the vehicle of expressing that hope to the world.
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What is this generation of students worth? It's worth everything.
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Leaders are all about what isn't and what-needs-to-be be.
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You have no idea what hangs in the balance of your decision on what to do with the burden God put in your heart.
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If you are a local church or non-profit, you live and die with volunteers.
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As a leader it is your job to protect the missional integrity of the Jesus gathering to which you have been called. It is your responsibility to see to it that the church under your care continues as a gathering of people in process; a place where the curious, the unconvinced, the skeptical, the used-to-believe and the broken, as well as the committed, informed and sold-out come together around Peter's declaration that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God.
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When Nehemiah's heart was broken he paid attention to his broken heart.
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Something I've noticed. Church planters don't pray for revival. They pray for opportunity, favor with the unchurched and leaders.
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Progress requires change.
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Preacher's kids need another consistent voice in their lives over the years.
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In a volunteer organization there has to be time for community.
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Praying for revival equates to blaming God for the condition of your local church.
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