“If you're a preacher's kid, you see the church differently.” — Andy Stanley

God is a God of systems and predictability and order, and God honors planning.

What people pray for will tell you more than anything else whether they are locked into the vision and priorities of the church.

Communicators need to figure out how well do they engage people, and they should not talk one word longer than people are engaged.

You cannot communicate complicated information to large groups of people. As you increase the number of people, you have to decrease the complexity of the information.