Perry Noble (New Spring Church, Anderson, SC)
If your always' accessible to people then your inaccessible with God.
You can't experience intimacy if you are always going 900 miles an hour
The reason I don't like to get alone with God sometimes is that He always tells me the truth.
Listen to God and do what He says and see what He does next.
Deal with your sin or it's gonna get dealt with.
Don't rejoice in your activities rejoice that your name is written in the book of life.
Judah Smith (The City Church, Seattle, WA)
Jesus has left us in His physical presence and He uses willing vessels. You don't know the then and when.
When you try to make God a mathematical relationship, then He will make sure that your equation doesn't work.
What do you do in the meantime?
The meantime matters to God and what you do in that meantime is what drives your visions and ministry.
Apart from God we will never to get to the next steps or vision that He gives.
Admit that your not there is the first step to getting to the other side.
Just because you are delayed does not mean that your dream is denied. Galatians 6:9
Stay in the boat no matter what the wind and the waves are telling you.
It is by His grace and Love that takes us to where we are supposed to be.
Francis Chan (Cornerstone Church, Simi Valley, CA)
To boast in anything we've done is ridiculous. It is all the hand of God that has placed us exactly where He wants us.
Moses said “God if you don't go with us then I don't want to go there”. Make that my prayer God, that I don't want to go anywhere without you.
That's stuff to brag about.... “I know God” and He answers in the little things.
When we read scripture it seems perfectly normally to not know exactly what happens next.
When you look at your life on the page of scripture does it really look Radical or would you just skip over to the next page.
Philippians 1
The same God that allowed Elijah to call down fire from heaven is the same God that can use someone today to call down fire from heaven.
People will come to God when we know for sure that God has conquered our enemies.
I know my God is coming through so why would I ever be afraid. Satan wants to take your courage and faith away. It's always been about Him not our gifts, leadership, and vision abilities. If satan can take away our courage and boldness, then the world will never notice.
Are people stunned by the boldness of the people of our churches???
Steven Furtick (Elevation Church, Charlotte, NC)
Have we become immune to the firework show that God wants to show in our lives?
Don’t be afraid to do things that no one has ever done.
If no one has laughed at the size of your vision lately, then you are not dreaming big enough.
There is something about immediate obedience the God loves to use.
Some of us have lost our wide-eyed ability to trust God and do what HE is calling us to do.
There are powerful things inside of you that God wants to do through you but in order to do them we have to believe that all things are possible with God.
There’s noting more powerful than one of God's promises in our lives.
Andy Stanley (Northpoint Church, Alpharetta, GA)
Churches gravitate toward insiders not outsiders. Church was never supposed to be for insiders because when the church started there was no such thing.
There should always be something about the church that attracts the culture around us because Jesus attracted the culture around Him.
We must focus externally.
Big church is nothing, growing church is everything.
Church gravitates toward the law and not grace. Churches gravitate toward complexity not simplicity.
God has seen every story and wants to redeem every story.
Acceptance isn't approval but acceptance paves the way to influence.
Jesus by the way that he lived always took the risk with people far from God but did so with grace and truth.
May we be the church in town that people think of when crisis happens.
Partner not pioneer with people that are already doing great ministries that you would never be able to do with excellence.
Churches want to preserve not advance.
Always try to think like a church plant. When we don't we think about all the things we have to lose.
God has not called us to protect anything he has called us to advance.
Jud Wilhite (Central Christian Church, Las Vegas, NV)
May we be called the “church” the people of God that saved my life. 98% of the people polled said that his church had changed their life.
I have to put my hand to the plow and not look back.
The church is the most powerful and important thing happening on the planet.
Jesus sovereignly choose to interact with the woman at the well instead of the ones in power. Reach out to the broken and you will always have an audience.
Who is hurting that we can help and how can we reach those who are not be reached??
Find the Yes, don't stop in your church because of constrictions.
The bolder we become about preaching the truth of who Jesus is the more impact I will have on people's lives that are far from God.
Teach the truth and release it in love. The goal should always be Jesus in whatever we do not us. Tell the truth and don't apologize for it, it is God's truth not ours.
Mark Driscoll (Mars Hill Church, Seattle, WA)
If you want God to use you greatly then He must wound you deeply. You will suffer because of your faithfulness. Jesus suffered so that when we suffer we will become like Him.
God's word always come through God's servants and not His rock-stars.
God must prune before harvest comes. To have a great harvest you have to have a great pruning. Suffering I the way that God prunes the church.
Suffering is correction from a loving father not a angry God.
I must preach out of my loses not my wins.
The closer I get to Christ the more of my sin I see.
Are we in a religious culture where we don’t' think about suffering and shame. We must repent of our religious sins.
The church is a family and like any family we annoy one another.
God uses the church the nobodies from nowhere just like Jesus was to impact the nations.
