Quotes That Have Helped Shape My Ministry

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Here is a list of quotes that I’ve placed in my Evernote journal. Reflecting on them has sharpened me in profound ways.

  • I suspect that sermons only go as deep into the hearts of our hearers as they have into our own. -Lee Eclov

  • Celebrate those that led before you. They poured the foundation from which you lead. - Glenn Burris

  • Seek first to understand, then to be understood. Dr. Stephen Covey (The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People)

  • If you lead on stage and not at home you’re an actor, not a leader. - Jon Acuff

  • Ministry by envy is a very bad idea. -Kevin DeYoung

  • Tell your people you love them and love being their pastor. [If you mean it] - Kevin DeYoung

  • God loves me too deeply to not challenge that about me so that he uses people I don’t respect to challenge me. - Matt Chandler

  • If you are a husband and/or a father, you have a duty to spread joy to your family. If an elder/pastor - to your church. Not just to be joyful, but to spread joy. Churches tend to take on the personality of their pastor. - Gregory Wills

  • The most mature Christian leaders want to absorb an additional share of sufferings so that their flocks may correspondingly be spared some suffering. In this they imitate Christ. -D.A. Carson (How Long O Lord, page 81)

  • The Lord loves your awkward prayers. -Jared Wilson

  • The fear of man renders us incapable of authentic leadership. We simply cannot lead what we worship. -Charles Smith

  • Our silence might be better than our voices if our solitude were spent with God. -Spurgeon

  • The bridge of grace will bear your weight. -Spurgeon



You can learn from anyone if you are willing to listen,

Josh.

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