Quotes about Impact

When our students accept the call of a servant leader to further the cause of Christ, it is time to begin considering how they can escape the strictly Christian subculture in order to shine their lights of truth into the dark places in our world. This will take great care and wisdom.

Giving is the highest expression of potency. In the very act of giving I experience my strength, my wealth, my power.

We automatically remember what makes a real difference in our life. The secret of the great teacher is to speak words, to foster experiences, that impact the active flow of the hearer's life. That is what Jesus did by the way he taught. He tied his teachings to concrete events that make up the hearers' lives. He aimed his sayings at their hearts and habits as these were revealed in their daily lives.

We do have an invitation to be a part of it, but if we refuse we only hurt ourselves.

They do not know what they are doing and do not have the ability to distance themselves from it so they can see it for what it is. That is the power of "culture.

Had to believe or do because otherwise something bad—something with no essential connection with real life—would happen to them. The people initially impacted by that message generally concluded that they would be fools to disregard it. That was the basis of their conversion.

In our spiritual disintegration we may not be able to rule the earth, but we now have the power several times over to ruin it utterly.

A thoughtless or uninformed theology grips and guides our life with just as great a force as does a thoughtful and informed one.

Discipleship is for the sake of the world, not for the sake of the church. It is carried out in those situations where people spend their life.

A measure of a leader is not the number of people who serve him, but the number of people he serves.

The most powerful leadership tool you have is your own personal example.

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.