Andy Stanley

What people pray for will tell you more than anything else whether they are locked into the vision and priorities of the church.

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.

Communicators need to figure out how well do they engage people, and they should not talk one word longer than people are engaged.

People are not on a truth quest; they are on a happiness quest. They will continue to attend your church - even if they don't share your beliefs - as long as they find the content engaging and helpful.

God is a God of systems and predictability and order, and God honors planning.

Preachers prepare with this fear: 'Am I going to be able to fill the time?' The audience never worries about that.

Most of us wake up every day and make decision that will make us happy, and generally decisions that will make us happy right then in the moment or that day. We are not really on a truth quest.