Critical analysis of [your own] preaching is too much like going through surgery: Cutting to the heart of the message also cut to the heart of the messenger.
Bruce Mawhinney, Preaching with Freshness
Quotes
Bruce Mawhinney
No preacher is big enough to do more than preach.
False Repentance
As the pendulum swings from the bully pulpit of years past into the self-disclosing conversational approach of our social-media rich environment, it continues past center into what I call the “permissive confession.” In short, this type of confession is not designed to right wrongs or to make amends. It’s often used to find sympathy and grace from your audience without having to do the hard work of repenting, changing your ways and paying retribution.
Not the Spooky Stuff
God wants to reveal His will to you and to teach you while you are waiting. So while you are waiting, don’t start searching for spooky stuff. We walk by faith, not by sight (2 Corinthians 5:7). Get into His Word. Get on your knees. Accept counsel from those who are maturing and balanced believers, solidly biblical in their theology and in their own lives. And wait.
Charles Swindoll, Great Days with the Great Lives
One Hundred Pianos
Has it ever occurred to you that one hundred pianos all tuned to the same fork are automatically tuned to each other? They are of one accord by being tuned, not to each other, but to another standard to which each one must individually bow. So one hundred worshippers meeting together, each one looking away to Christ, are in heart nearer to each other than they could possibly be were they to become “unity” conscious and turn their eyes away from God to strive for closer fellowship.
Leaders, Listen!
Leaders who refuse to listen will eventually be surrounded by people who have nothing significant to say.
Andy Stanley
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