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Wikipedia Summary for Andy Stanley
Charles Andrew Stanley (born May 16, 1958), known as Andy Stanley, is the founder and senior pastor of North Point Ministries, a nondenominational evangelical Christian church with several campuses across the north metro Atlanta area: North Point Community Church, Buckhead Church, Browns Bridge Church, Woodstock City Church, Gwinnett Church, Decatur City Church, and East Cobb Church.
If you're a Christian you can't have an I'm better than attitude toward anyone because everybody is somebody for whom Jesus died.
If you're the only hot dog stand in town, your hot dogs don't have to be good.
We don't drift in good directions. We discipline and prioritize ourselves there.
Spiritual maturity is measured in terms of persevering faith, not perfect behavior.
A good coach always coaches to a leader's potential, not his current level of performance. A good leadership coach will see the potential in you and inspire you accordingly.
You don't sit around looking for reasons to do the right thing; it's the bad decisions that require creative reasoning.
When you separate theology from ministry, you liberate your ministry and have better theology.
Greed is easy to hide -- from ourselves. But the people around us know. Because although it maybe difficult to spot greed in the mirror, it isn't difficult at all to see in the people around us.
People who blame things rarely change things. Blame is an unassailable change-avoidance strategy.
Every arena of life intersects with what's going on in our hearts. Everything passes through on its way to wherever it's going. Everything.
Not the one who knows the most, but the one who loves faithfully and consistently the most, is a true follower of Jesus.
The followers of Jesus did not die for what they believed -- they died for what they claim to have seen.
Our culture highlights all the trouble, all the drama, all the affairs and all the junk. Do not believe for a minute that any of that reflects reality. That does not have to be your future. The handwriting is not written on the wall.
If you're not looking forward to church this morning perhaps it's time to look for a church.
Is Christianity fair? It is certainly not fair to God. Christians believe that God sent His Son to die for your sins and mine. Fairness would demand that we die for our own sins.
Everything now will prepare you for the next step. Don't run from adversity; lean into it with all your heart and God will make you a leader worth following.
The goal of leadership is not to eradicate uncertainty but rather to navigate it.
As your organizational authority increases, your organizational IQ decreases.
The starting block for people who are going to stay in love is mutual submission.
Preaching for life changes requires far less information and more application. Less explanation and more inspiration.
If fear causes you to retreat from your dreams, you will never give the world anything new.
No matter how much money we have or make, we will probably never consider ourselves rich. The biggest challenge facing rich people is that they've lost they're ability to recognize that they're rich.
There are some rich people who, no matter how much God sends their way, never seem to put their hope in their riches.
We begin selling ourselves on what we want to do rather than what we ought to do. We listen to ourselves until we believe our own lies, and the we opt for happiness.
What you fear most will determine whether you merely save for the future or give for the future.
As believers, we all have the responsibility to leverage our wealth for kingdom purposes.
We don't drift into good directions. We discipline and prioritize ourselves there.
Do you think God can be trusted? Or do yo think you need to take things into your own hands?
It is when our hearts are stirred that we become most aware of what they contain.
Yes, God uses the uneducated to confound the wise. But that doesn't make ignorance a virtue.
A leader should never risk their ability to make a difference by making an unnecessary point.
If a volunteer can help us with an immediate need, we can put them in a place to make their greatest contribution.
The great challenge is how to marry creativity with discipline so that discipline amplifies creativity without destroying it.
There is a big difference between being a leader and actually leading.
People without clear vision are easily distracted, have a tendency to drift from one idea to another and often make foolish decisions that rob them of their dreams.
The greatest motivator of change is a crystal-clear vision of what the future should look like.
Vision evokes emotion. There is no such thing as an emotionless vision.
God's extravagant generosity toward us compels us to be extravagantly generous toward others.
One of the exciting things about being a believer is watching God unveil His plan for our lives.
Without courage we will simply accumulate a collection of good ideas and regrets.
It is my judgment, therefore, that we should not make it difficult for the Gentiles who are turning to God.
Leaders learn to leverage the problems that never go away in a way to create progress for the organization.
As a believer just because you gain more fame or authority doesn't mean anything, this means you have more feet to wash.
Whenever there is fear, there is opportunity. When there is great fear, there is great opportunity.
Strange as it may sound, it is more difficult to maintain a faith walk when we begin to see our dreams come true. When hopes become realities it is easy to shift our faith onto the thing we have dreamed of and off of the One who was the source of our provision.
Here's a question every angry man and woman needs to consider: How long are you going to allow people you don't even like -- people who are no longer in your life, maybe even people who aren't even alive anymore -- to control your life? How long?
Be who you are. But be the very best communicator you can possibly be. To do that you must be willing to sacrifice what's comfortable-what has become part of your style-for the sake of what is effective.
What breaks my heart is in the United States hundreds of thousands wake up on a Sunday and church never crosses their mind.
One never accomplishes the will of God by breaking the law of God, violating the principles of God, or ignoring the wisdom of God.
The truth is that church by its nature is a very general concept and most people are not looking for a church; otherwise, churches would be full of visitors every week. What people are looking for is something that works for them as individuals. And that is something specific, not general.
Authority does not equal competency. Pass decisions down to those who can best handle them.
The moment a leader steps away from his core competencies, his effectiveness as a leader diminishes.
Your devotion to God is illustrated, demonstrated, and authenticated by your love for others.
The health of your marriage tomorrow will be determined by the decisions you make today.
One of the most difficult tasks of visioneering is distinguishing between good ideas and God ideas.
If there is a perceived difference between what you expect from others and what you expect from yourself, it will eventually erode your influence.
Peace is a fruit of the Spirit, not the byproduct of accumulated wealth.
Fixing things requires change and change always creates conflict. But that is why you are a leader.
A good coach will evaluate your performance against your potential. A coach helps you measure your performance against your strengths instead of against someone else's. A coach will know what you are capable of and will push you to your limit.
We're so absorbed in the effort to get rich, we no longer recognize when we are rich.
Leadership is not always about getting things done 'right.' Leadership is about getting things done through other people.
Christianity teaches that when man sinned, God opted for forgiveness rather than fairness. He opted for grace and mercy rather than justice.
You can't resist the will of God and receive the grace of God at the same time.
Your talent and giftedness as a leader have the potential to take you farther than your character can sustain you. That ought to scare you.
You have no idea the numbers of people that God may want to influence through you.
Serving people we don't see eye to eye with is the essence of Christianity. Jesus died for a world with which he didn't see eye to eye. If a bakery doesn't want to sell its products to a gay couple, it's their business. Literally. But leave Jesus out of it.
Most of us are married to a model of ministry and we flirt with the Great Commission.
Grace is not reserved for good people; grace underscores the goodness of God.
There is an appropriate way to use your story, not as an excuse but as a testimony to God's ability to free you from the past.
Greed is supported by an endless cast of what-ifs. Greedy people can never have enough to satisfy the need they feel in light of every conceivable eventuality.
I've concluded that while nobody plans to mess up their life, the problem is that a few of us plan not to. That is, we don't put the necessary safeguards in place to ensure a happy ending.
If you capture someone's heart, you will eventually get his hands and feet as well.
Your greatest accomplishment may not be something you do but someone you raise.
