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The more successful you are the less accessible you will become.

Andy Stanley

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Andy Stanley
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: May 16
Pastor
Atlanta
Georgia
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Leadership is all about taking people on a journey. The challenge is that most of the time, we are asking people to follow us to places we ourselves have never been.
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The root of anger is the perception that something has been taken. Something is owed you, and now a debt to debtor relationship has been established.
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In our minds, rich is always the other person, the other family. Rich is having more than you currently have. If that is the case, you can be rich and not feel it. You can be rich and not know it.
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The issue is: how do you engage the audience? And one of the things I talk to our communicators about is: The outline is great the stories are great. But how do you engage them? How do you make it feel like we are on a journey, not you are just up there giving me information.
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We ask our volunteers, Do you work here? They say, Not yet.
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Your talent and giftedness as a leader have the potential to take you farther than your character can sustain you. That ought to scare you.
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What breaks my heart is in the United States hundreds of thousands wake up on a Sunday and church never crosses their mind.
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It's OK to offend people with the Gospel, but, good grief- let's don't offend them with something else.
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Guys that preach verse-by-verse through books of the Bible - that is just cheating. It's cheating because that would be easy, first of all. That isn't how you grow people. No one in the Scripture modeled that.
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If the Old and New Testament teach us anything, they teach us that nothing is too difficult for God. What he originates, he orchestrates.
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Here's a scary thought: What if God called you to give beyond your comfort level? Would you be afraid? Would you try to explain it away or dismiss it as impractical? And in the process, would you miss out on a harvest opportunity for which God had explicitly prospered you in the first place?
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