1. People deserve honesty & “realness" from the pulpit, but they deserve The Bible too.
2. Service and commitment result in joy; one without the other results in weariness.
3. Logical, sensible, biblical thinking is the antidote for much social insanity.
4. You don't have to forsake the intellectual in order to have the spiritual. Intelligence and holiness walk hand in hand.
5. Excellence is not a sin.
6. Cultural relevance is a biblical mandate.
7. The only prerequisite for being treated with dignity is being human.
8. People should be encouraged to be honest about their feelings toward God ... otherwise all we're doing is teaching them to be good, Christian liars.
9. Manipulation is the antithesis of pastoral care, but clerical passivity is its assassin.
10. Churches should make decisions that are in God's best interest.
11. It's the students’ and kids' church too. HEAR THEM!
12. Singles matter. Marriage isn’t a requirement for wholeness.
13. Only a foolish pastor allows a person’s “church influence” to exceed that person’s “spiritual depth.”
14. When pastors “sell out” to the powerful, they SELL the rest of the people out.
15. Two excellent partners for a good pastor: a tender heart and a thick skin.
16. You don’t “just throw away” the generation that put you in business.
17. “Christianity” is a verb ... so is “Pastor.”
18. The pulpit is not a pastor’s “therapy couch.”
19. To abandon one’s church when she is wounded is to abandon one’s Savior when he is weeping.
20. There is no option for the privilege of leading the church apart from the probability of being hurt by the church.
21. Personal salvation has everything to do with Christianity, but it’s not everything with which Christianity has to do.
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