Missional leaders understand the power of connecting relationally in their community through personal networking.

Coachable leaders are ready and willing to make the needed changes and adjustments in their lives.

Leaders live by reality and not by assumptions!

God’s discipline has nothing to do with rejection but more to do with refinement.

Two types of leaders: there are thinkers and there are doers. Some are idea generators and others are the implementers.

Spiritual authority is the direct result of God doing a greater work in the deeper areas of a leader’s life.

A hardness to change reveals a hardness of heart.

Leading a missional church is not for the faint of heart. It takes courage to push yourself beyond your comfort zone and to lead the church beyond it personal limits.

God is so much bigger than our ‘what ifs’ that he can turn them into ‘why nots

Intimacy with God is not experienced through monolog prayers but through reflective listening as well as earnest petitioning.

Hearing God’s voice is indispensable to moving through or around closed doors.

I am slowly coming to understand with all my heart as well as my head that love is not a feeling. It is a person.

The devil is ready to do anything for us not to attain our goal

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

Relationships make me happy.

It is by a thorough knowledge of the whole subject that [people] are enabled to judge correctly of the past and to give a proper direction to the future.

Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know,' and thou shalt progress.

If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf.

Even when I cannot write, I know I am still a writer, just the way I know I am still sexual even if I have not had a lover for many months.

The most successful person is the one who is most inspired. That is true in food and in life.

We used to say a movie could never come close to a book, but no one reads books anymore.