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What could be and should be can’t be until God is ready for it to be.

Andy Stanley

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Andy Stanley
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: May 16
Pastor
Atlanta
Georgia
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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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Vision is a mental picture of what could be, fueled by a passion that it should be.
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Just as Jesus predicted, what originates in the secret place won't always remain a secret. ... How do we guard -- or maybe it would be more appropriate to say, guard against -- our hearts? How do we monitor what's going on in that secret place that has the potential to go public at any moment?
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Here's something to think about: If God appeared to you and asked, Why should I let you into heaven? how would you answer?
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There are many things I can do, but I have to narrow it down to the one thing I must do. The secret of concentration is elimination.
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Devoting a little of yourself to everything means committing a great deal of yourself to nothing.
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Many years from now, what would you like people to line up and thank you for?
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Jesus did not come to be right. He came to make disciples.
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No matter how much money we have or make, we will probably never consider ourselves rich. The biggest challenge facing rich people is that they've lost they're ability to recognize that they're rich.
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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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No matter how rich or poor you might feel, right now is the time to be generous.
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For reasons known only to him, God has chosen to work through men and women who are willing to make sacrifices for the sake of the thing he has placed in their hearts to do. If God bas birthed a vision in you, it is only a matter of time until you will come upon the precipice of sacrifice.
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If you want to know what Jesus meant by what Jesus said, pay attention to that Jesus did.
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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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The reason we're here today is because years ago God broke Reggie Joiner's heart over the state of children.
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Environments are the messages before the message.
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Jesus is the hope of the world and the local church is the vehicle of expressing that hope to the world.
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Leaders fix things that are broken.
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Jesus never allowed His theology to get in the way of His ministry.
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If a volunteer can help us with an immediate need, we can put them in a place to make their greatest contribution.
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