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Andy Stanley
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: May 16
Pastor
Atlanta
Georgia
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Greed is supported by an endless cast of what-ifs. Greedy people can never have enough to satisfy the need they feel in light of every conceivable eventuality.
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Imagine a world where unbelievers were critical of what we believed but envious of how well we treated one another.
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Greed is the assumption that it is all for my consumption.
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Leadership is stewardship, it's temporary and you're accountable!
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People without clear vision are easily distracted, have a tendency to drift from one idea to another and often make foolish decisions that rob them of their dreams.
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Authority does not equal competency.
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There's a monumental difference in believing in God and believing God.
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Whenever there is fear, there is opportunity. When there is great fear, there is great opportunity.
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Every time I stand to communicate, I want to take one simple truth and lodge it in the heart of the listener. I want them to know that one thing and know what to do with it.
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Believe what you want But don't dumb down what Jesus said.
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Where there's no progress, there's no growth. If there's no growth, there's no life. Environments void of change are eventually void of life.
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What people pray for will tell you more than anything else whether they are locked into the vision and priorities of the church.
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Charisma on stage is not necessarily evidence of the Holy Spirit.
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What you fear most will determine whether you merely save for the future or give for the future.
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Preaching on Sunday mornings is such a simple thing, and by complicating it, I think we all do ourselves and the audience a disservice. It is very simple. Here is the model: Make people feel like they need an answer to a question.
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Guilt rarely results in positive behavior. But gratitude? Great things flow from a heart of gratitude.
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To be the best next-generation leader you can be, you must enlist the help of others. Self-evaluation is helpful, but evaluation from someone else is essential. You need a leadership coach. Coaching enables a leader to go further faster.
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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.
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My high school science teacher once told me that much of Genesis is false. But since my high school teacher did not prove he was God by rising from the dead, I'm going to believe Jesus instead.
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Communicators need to figure out how well do they engage people, and they should not talk one word longer than people are engaged.
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