“To stay calm is to be so aware of yourself that your response to the situation is not to the anxiety of the people around you but to the actual issue at hand.”
“Don’t focus on whether your church is dying; keep your focus on being transformed into the leader God can use to transform his people for his mission.”
“the working definition of leadership we are using here: Energizing a community of people toward their own transformation in order to accomplish a shared mission in the face of a changing world.”