Craig Groeschel
American author, speaker, and the founding and senior pastor of LifeChurch.
Let God turn fear into faith. Instead of becoming a hesitant leader, ask God to make you bold and aggressive.
As God blesses your ministry with it, remember that those without it tend to criticize those with it, especially when you do things differently.
If there is any group in the world that should be motivated to make improvements, reflecting God's creative nature, it should be Christians.
Passion creates motivation, which leads to innovation.
The it-rich are those who have chosen to face their fears rather than live with regrets.
Seek God. Hear from God. Receive his vision. Let it overwhelm you. Consume you. Burden you. Tell the vision. Cast the vision. Communicate the vision. And watch it spread.
Sometimes the fruit of your steps of faith is measured not so much by what God does through you as by what God does in you.
Reflecting God, innovative believers tend to have it. And it is borne out of their passion to please God, reach people, and help those in need.
There's a huge difference between a good idea and a God-inspired idea.
Limitations often reveal opportunities.
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.
If you don't have something you think you need, maybe it's because God wants you to see something you've never seen.
With increasing passion comes increasing creativity to reach people.
Across the board, almost every with-it church I've observed is virtually obsessed with reaching those who don't know Christ.
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.
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.
Stuntmen and stuntwomen are paid to fall. They fall, get beat up, and get blown up...gracefully. We need to learn to fail gracefully.
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.
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."
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.