Highlights from Andy Stanley's Talk
Thursday, August 10, 2006
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Tony again comes through with the highlights of Andy Stanley's talk at the Willow Leadership Summit. Here's a clip - GREAT stuff.
Andy Stanley, senior pastor from North Point Community Church, took the platform for session three. He talked about the best leadership decision he's ever made. He made a deal with God. He explained it something like this:
God, I don't have time to build a ministry and take care of my family. I'll give you 45 hours per week as a church planter. If you can build a church on 45 hours, I'm your guy. I'll let you build has big a church as you can with that 45 hours, and I'll be satisfied with that. But I'm not going to cheat my family.
Andy decided to cheat the church before he cheated his family. With his wife, he decided to be at home by 4:30 every day. That meant he left work at 4:00.
Andy explained that God has never commanded him love the Church. He was commanded to love his wife. He was never commanded to build the Church. Jesus said he would do that. Instead, we get it backwards. We try to go build the church, and we pray that God will take care of our family.
Lots more there and in the coming days from Tony's blog. Nice.
JG
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