Quotes about Growth

If you want your church to stand the test of time, then you have to be replaced.

When a leader attempts to become well-rounded, he brings down the average of the organization's leadership quotient—which brings down the level of the leaders around him. Don't strive to be a well-rounded leader. Instead, discover your zone and stay there. Then delegate everything else.

Initially, your vision will exceed your competency.

Vision always precedes preparation. Initially, your vision will exceed your competency.

If you feed an appetite, it grows. Satisfying an appetite does not diminish it. It expands it. To diminish an appetite, you have to starve it.

Practical teaching that moves people to action is one of the primary things God uses to grow our faith.

To grow our congregants' faith, we must preach and teach for life change.

For this reason it is the dark that provides the leader with his greatest opportunities. It is your response to the dark that determines in large part whether or not you will be called on to lead. For the darkness is what keeps the average person from stepping outside the security of what has always been.

Ministry makes people's faith bigger. If you want to increase someone's confidence in God, put him in a ministry position before he feels fully equipped.

Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.

Wherever there is fear, there is opportunity. Wherever there is great fear, there is great opportunity.

You may be good. You may even be better than everyone esle. But without a coach you will never be as good as you could be.