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As your organizational authority increases, your organizational IQ decreases.

Andy Stanley

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Andy Stanley
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: May 16
Pastor
Atlanta
Georgia
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Vions are born in the soul of a man or woman who is consumed with the tension between what is and what could be.
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Something I've noticed. Church planters don't pray for revival. They pray for opportunity, favor with the unchurched and leaders.
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Is Christianity fair? It is certainly not fair to God. Christians believe that God sent His Son to die for your sins and mine. Fairness would demand that we die for our own sins.
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I'm concerned about the plight of children. But I'm not on a mission to get all the available orphans in the world adopted into Christian homes.
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Jesus did not come to strike a balance between grace and truth. He brought the full measure of both.
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There is an appropriate way to use your story, not as an excuse but as a testimony to God's ability to free you from the past.
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