Craig Groeschel quotes

Doing the wrong new things, things that usurp what God calls us to do, is dangerous. Focus tends to let it breathe. Lack of focus generally suffocates it.

If your ministry has become focused on the already-convinced, I'll bet that your ministry doesn't have it.

The first-century church in Jerusalem clearly had it. And they didn't have any fancy accoutrements. So it can't possibly be stained-glass windows, hand-carved cherubs, custom silk tapestries, gold-inlaid hymnals, thousand-pipe organs, marble floors, mile-high steeples, hand-painted ceilings, mahogany pews, giant cast-iron bells, and a three-piece, thousand dollar suit. It doesn't stick any better to a young, hip, shaved-headed pastor with rimmed glasses, a goatee, and tattoos than it does to an older, stately gentleman in a robe. Nor is it spotlights and lasers, video production, satellite dishes, fog machines, shiny gauze backdrops, four-color glossy brochures, sexy billboards, loud "contemporary" music, free donuts, coffee shops, hip bookstores, break dancing or acrobatics, sermon series named after television shows, a retro-modern matching chair and table onstage, or blue jeans and Heelys. It is not being on television, being on the Internet, or being on book and magazine covers. It is real. It is genuine.

A church that has it recognizes that reaching people is not just the pastor's job. It's everyone's job.

Love overcomes obstacles.

As long as you're afraid of intimacy and spiritual partnership, you won't likely experience it. To have it, you have to share it with each other. Just as there's no I in team, there's no it in independence.

As you seek God and he rekindles it in your heart, I believe he is going to speak to you.

The it-ish understand: failure is a part of success.

Have you hit an obstacle that appears impenetrable? Maybe God will guide you to see something that you couldn't have seen if he'd just removed the wall.

While many lament, "We don't have what it takes to make a difference," innovative leaders say, "God is our provider; we have more than enough."

For the sake of those who don't know Christ, think big.

Stuntmen and stuntwomen are paid to fall. They fall, get beat up, and get blown up...gracefully. We need to learn to fail gracefully.

The best explanation I can give of what it is, is this: it is what God does through a rare combination of these qualities found in his people: Passion for his presence; A deep craving to reach the lost; Sincere integrity; Spirit-filled faith; Down-to-earth humility; Brokenness.

If you've ever been part of a ministry that had it, you knew you were part of something special. In other words, you knew it when you saw it. And it was an awesome work of God that couldn't be contained, couldn't be harnessed, and couldn't be explained.

Across the board, almost every with-it church I've observed is virtually obsessed with reaching those who don't know Christ.

With increasing passion comes increasing creativity to reach people.

If you don't have something you think you need, maybe it's because God wants you to see something you've never seen.

Who do you love? If you love God, you should love people. If you don't love people, you don't love God. It's that simple.

Limitations often reveal opportunities.

There's a huge difference between a good idea and a God-inspired idea.