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  • Being a Baptist won’t keep you from sinning, but it’ll sure … keep you from enjoying it.
  • If you don’t train your church what boundaries are appropriate, you likely won’t have many.
  • If I have capable team members and volunteers who know about issues and can make decisions without me, that’s all I really need to know about those issues.
  • Selfish behavior and selfish mindsets always produce disunity.
    — Eric Geiger & Jeff Borron in “Simple Student Ministry” (via adamlehman)
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  • Getting rich is not what work is for. Paul said we should not steal. The alternative was hard work with our own hands. But the main purpose was not merely to hoard or even to have. The purpose was “to have in order to give.
  • Saying that, I love watchbloggers, and I’d love it if they all found other hobbies. Today I love them because Christ’s work compells me, and when they finally repent I’ll be overjoyed to love them for the outworking of their repentence, but less sacrificially.
    — Frank Turk, commenting at Pyromaniacs on Watchbloggers.
  • One of my great goals in life is to live long enough to where I am in the pulpit, preaching my heart out, and I die on the spot, my chin hits the pulpit – boom! – and I’m down and out. What a way to die!
  • With iPods and iPads and Xboxes and PlayStations — none of which I know how to work — information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment, rather than the means of emancipation.
  • When launching a new program, it might not need a logo, a room, or an agenda. Sometimes a vision and the right leader may be all you need to start.
    — Craig Groeschel on why everything doesn’t have to be perfect to start a new program in your church
  • The definition of insanity: Repeatedly doing something that doesn’t work but expecting a different outcome.
    — Unknown