Craig Groeschel Quotes

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Ministries that have it tend to be focused on a limited set of targets. They do a few things as if all eternity hinged on their results, and they do these things with godly excellence. Their vision is characterized by specificity. Selectivity. Exclusivity.

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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.

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There is no sin too great for God's grace. There is no habit too big for his healing. There is no label too strong for his love.

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Belief overflows to behavior. First we need to change what we believe. when we truly change what we believe, we'll gladly change how we behave.

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Don't put your faith in the innovations. Keep your faith in Christ.

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

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Passion creates motivation, which leads to innovation.

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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.

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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.

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Just as we are what we eat physically, we are also what we consume spiritually.

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Here are a few questions to stir your vision: Why does your organization exist? What can your organization be the best in the world at? If you could do only one thing, what would it be? If you left your organization tomorrow, what would you hope would continue forever? What breaks your heart, keeps you awake at night, wrecks you?

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If the Devil can't make us really bad, then he'll try to make us really busy.

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Failing often can help a ministry experience it. Being overly cautious can kill it.

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

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God doesn't want us to be happy when it causes us to do something wrong or unwise

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You can't change in your own power. If you feel overwhelmed by something bigger than you, let the one who is bigger than all things be the power you need in your weakness.

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Shame usually follows a pattern—a cycle of self-recrimination and lies that claims life after life. First, we experience an intensely painful event. Second, we believe the lie that our pain and failure is who we are—not just something we've done, or had done to us—and we experience shame. And finally, our feelings of shame trap us into thinking that we can never recover—that, in fact, we don't even deserve to.

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When you increase your focus, you decrease your options. Good things are not necessarily God things.

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Our thoughts are either focused on what's eternal, life-changing, and true, or lost in the details of our temporary, selfish, false beliefs.

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If you want your ministry to have 'it', more important than anything else we've discussed, you must have 'it'. When it has filtered through your heart - the rare combination of passion, integrity, focus, faith, expectation, drive, hunger, and God's anointing - God tends to infuse your ministry with 'it'. He blesses your work. People are changed. Leaders grow. Resources flow. The ministry seems to take on a life of its own.

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God can and will break the labels that have held you hostage.

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The it-rich are those who have chosen to face their fears rather than live with regrets.

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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.

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Be careful not to blame yourself if someone rejects Christ. If you do, you might be tempted to take credit when someone accepts him.

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If you don't know the purpose of something, all you can do is misuse it.

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