Quote #5

Never compare your ministry: for two reasons. First, you'll always find someone doing a better job that you and you'll get discouraged. Second, you'll always find someone that you're doing a better job than, and get full of pride. Either way, you'll be dead in the water.

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  2. What we normally do in the structure of a message is that we do interpretation and then application of a point, then the next interpretatio…
  3. A church is either structured for growth or control.
  4. People respond to responsibility.
  5. Never stop learning. All leaders are learners. The moment you stop learning, you stop leading. Growing churches require growing pastors. Th…
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