#pastors

Your circumstances do NOT define you. Expect a GRAND finale. ↗

— John Paul Warren

#central-christian-church #church #inspirational #john-paul #john-paul-warren

I have learned that the harder you fall…the higher you bounce! ↗

— John Paul Warren

#conferences #crusades #eeaders #inspirational #john-paul

The real architect of a life is the hard and almost impossible circumstances one faces. ↗

— John Paul Warren

#church #inspirational #leadership #motivational #pastors

In a team setting, leadership is shared by a community of people, which counters the tendency for pastors to form congregations in their own images. ↗

— Adam S. McHugh

#introverts #leadership #pastors #teamwork #leadership

Life of any real value or substance is not formed during good times merely enjoyed. ↗

— John Paul Warren

#church #inspirational #leadership #motivational #pastors

Senior pastors cannot be those who think they can do everything but are willing to let a few people help them. Rather, they are those who know they can’t do everything, don’t want to do everything, and are not willing to do everything; they welcome others to come along-side with their gifts in order to form a powerful team for Christ. ↗

— Sue Mallory

#gifts #leaders #leadership #pastors #leadership

This ain't my first rodeo!". ~R. Alan Woods [1999] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#abuse-of-power #abuse-of-religion #church #pastors #r-alan-woods

We must admit that simply knowing the contents of the Bible is not a sure route to spiritual growth. There is an aweful assumption in evangelical churches that if we can just get the Word of God into people's heads, then the Spirit of God will apply it to their hearts. That assumption is aweful, not because the Spirit never does what the assumption supposes, but because it excused pastors and leaders from the responsibility to tangle with people's lives. Many remain safely hidden behind pulpits, hopelessly out of touch with the struggles of their congregations, proclaiming the Scriptures with a pompous accuracy that touches no one. Pulpits should provide bridges, not barriers, to life-changing relationships. ↗

— Larry Crabb

#knowledge #learning #pastors #pulpits #relationships

Happy and fortunate indeed would this nation be, nay, completely blessed, if it had good prelates and pastors, and but one prince, and that prince a good one. ↗

— Giraldus Cambrensis

#completely #fortunate #good #had #happy

It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#curse #get #idealism #into #materialism