What people pray for will tell you more than anything else whether they are locked into the vision and priorities of the church. Andy Stanley Read Quote
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 there giving me information. Andy Stanley Read Quote
Communicators need to figure out how well do they engage people, and they should not talk one word longer than people are engaged. Andy Stanley Read Quote
The church wasn’t an organization in the first century. They weren’t writing checks or buying property. The church has matured and developed over the years. But for some reason, the last thing to change is the structure of leadership. Andy Stanley Read Quote
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. Andy Stanley Read Quote
As a pastor, I’ve spent 30 years talking to people and heard every kind of story imaginable. Andy Stanley Read Quote
People pray in one direction but they walk in a different direction, and direction always determines where we end up. Andy Stanley Read Quote
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. Andy Stanley Read Quote
