God can, has and will use anybody who is open to serving Him to convey the gospel. He will bless the efforts of His servants whether they are gifted as evangelizers or not.

It is not a church’s job to spiritually develop your children. Scripturally, it is the job of the parents. The church body is supposed to support parents in raising children, not replace them.

If you want to have a lasting influence upon the world, you must invest in people's lives; and if you want to maximize that investment, then you must invest in those people while they are young.

Leadership is the process of motivating, mobilizing, resourcing, and directing people to passionately and strategically pursue a vision from God that a group jointly embraces.

Jesus didn't die so we could fill auditoriums, he died so that lives could be transformed.

True visionaries are never lukewarm.

We cannot be effective if we continue to cling to the old ways, the old strategies, the old assumptions.

Evangelism that starts at the nonbeliever's point of felt need and ties the gospel into that area of need has the greatest capacity for capturing the mind and heart of the non-Christian.

The average Christian leaves planet earth never having led anyone to Christ.

Nearly 60% of Americans who regularly attend Christian church say there is no such thing as the Holy Spirit—they say the Holy Spirit is just a symbol of God’s power or presence or purity.

The visionary who is serving God ceases to live for personal ambitions, but rather for God's ambitions.

Diversity cannot swim in a world flooding with clones.

Before you talk to the world, talk to yourself. And, before you listen to the world, listen to yourself.

Time is a terrible thing because it can erase both joys and pains.

We must search the scriptures, accepting them as the mind and will and voice of the Lord and the very power of God unto salvation.

I want to say 90% of stuff out there is just crap that got made. The main point is that it got produced.

Every day is judgment day-use it.

A majority of women's magazines feature women who do amazing things, but then the article focuses on how she ruined it with her shoes.

the best often die by their own hand just to get away, and those left behind can never quite understand why anybody would ever want to get away from them

I wanted to dress the woman who lives and works, not the woman in a painting.

The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.