Chris Kelley

“successful leaders are bigger than any individual outcome; their sense of self-worth doesn’t depend on its having to work. Their whole self-image is not at stake. They are separate from “the deal.”
― Henry Cloud, Necessary Endings: The Employees, Businesses, and Relationships That All of Us Have to Give Up in Order to Move Forward

“Because the gospel is news, good news… it is to be announced; that is what one does with news. The essential heraldic element in preaching is bound up with the fact that the core message is not a code of ethics to be debated, still less a list of aphorisms to be admired and pondered, and certainly not a systematic theology to be outlined and schematized. Though it properly grounds ethics, aphorisms, and systematics, it is none of these three: it is news, good news, and therefore must be publicly announced”
― Timothy Keller, Center Church: Doing Balanced, Gospel-Centered Ministry in Your City

“It’s interesting how people try to redefine God to their liking. They bring him down to their level so they can understand him, then they reject him because he is too much like them.”
― Judah Smith, Jesus Is ______: Find a New Way to Be Human

“A big part of a pastor’s job is to keep the church swimming upstream, because the natural current takes us to a place of inward focus.”
― Dave Browning, Deliberate Simplicity: How the Church Does More by Doing Less