Craig Groeschel - People Quotes

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Have you ever tasted stale popcorn? The only thing worse is stale vision. If a ministry loses the vision, it's only a matter of time before they lose what made them special in the first place. Without vision, the people will quickly lose it.

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Instead of whining, "We can't reach certain people," with-it people exclaim with faith, "We will find a way."

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When we look at other people comparatively and competitively, we're not seeing them as our brothers and sisters. We're not loving them more than we love ourselves, and we we're definitely not seeing them as God sees them.

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With-it ministries are filled with people so passionate, they're driven to become innovative. They create opportunities.

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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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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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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.

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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.

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Your greatest ministry innovation could come from your greatest limitation - if you have a sincere passion to reach and care for people.

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

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Tragically, many people have this faithless, wishy-washy mindset, which causes them to lose the battle in their minds before they ever fight it in the world.

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Instead of saying, "It will never work," with-it people say, "What if this does work?"

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The problem is that many bitter people don't know they are bitter. since they are so convinced that they are right, they can't see their own wrong in the mirror. And the longer the root of bitterness grows, the more difficult it is to remove.

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With increasing passion comes increasing creativity to reach people.

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Envy is when you resent God's goodness in other people's lives and ignore God's goodness in your own life.

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The New Testament is peppered with "one another" reminders. While Scripture says to love another, encourage one another, offer hospitality to one another, be kind to one another, many people are content tolerating one another, if not ignoring one another.

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