Quotes by Andy Stanley

About Andy Stanley:

Charles Andrew "Andy" Stanley is the senior pastor of North Point Community Church, Buckhead Church, Browns Bridge Church, Gwinnett Church, Watermarke Church, and Decatur City Church.
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The issue is: how do you engage the audience? And one of the things I talk to our communicators about is: The outline is great; the stories are great. But how do you engage them? How do you make it feel like we are on a journey, not you are just up t...

Andy Stanley

Somehow, what's in our hearts, good or bad is eventually translated into words and deeds.

Andy Stanley

Preachers prepare with this fear: 'Am I going to be able to fill the time?' The audience never worries about that.

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A principle is a principle, and God created all the principles.

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God is a God of systems and predictability and order, and God honors planning.

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Uncertainty is a permanent part of the leadership landscape. It never goes away.

Andy Stanley

Uncertainty is not an indication of poor leadership; it underscores the need for leadership.

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Leadership is all about taking people on a journey. The challenge is that most of the time, we are asking people to follow us to places we ourselves have never been.

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All Scripture is equally inspired, but not all Scripture is equally applicable or relevant to every stage of life.

Andy Stanley

Most of us wake up every day and make decision that will make us happy, and generally decisions that will make us happy right then in the moment or that day. We are not really on a truth quest.

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Greed is not a financial issue. It's a heart issue.

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Success means your options multiply. Size increases complexity, and complexity can confuse vision.

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As a pastor, I've spent 30 years talking to people and heard every kind of story imaginable.

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People pray in one direction but they walk in a different direction, and direction always determines where we end up.

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If you're a preacher's kid, you see the church differently.

Andy Stanley

You cannot communicate complicated information to large groups of people. As you increase the number of people, you have to decrease the complexity of the information.

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Preaching on Sunday mornings is such a simple thing, and by complicating it, I think we all do ourselves and the audience a disservice. It is very simple. Here is the model: Make people feel like they need an answer to a question.

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Communicators need to figure out how well do they engage people, and they should not talk one word longer than people are engaged.

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Guys that preach verse-by-verse through books of the Bible - that is just cheating. It's cheating because that would be easy, first of all. That isn't how you grow people. No one in the Scripture modeled that.

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What people pray for will tell you more than anything else whether they are locked into the vision and priorities of the church.

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Direction, not intention determines your destination.

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Author Bio

  • NameAndy Stanley
  • DescriptionAmerican Christian minister
  • BornMay 16, 1958