Measure Of Success (pt3) By Shawn Lovejoy

"We must stop chasing models and start chasing Jesus again!"

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"Zeal is simply not enough to carry us through ministry and leadership. We must be fully equipped to shepherd God’s people."

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"Jesus didn’t say, 'Go and grow large.' He said, 'Go and make disciples.'"

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"Filling our auditoriums is good; filling heaven is better."

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"The church is first and foremost a group of people whom Jesus loves."

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"God gave us a certain amount of talent, and he only holds us accountable for the gifts we have."

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"Too many of us are trying to fulfill someone else’s ministry. Because of this there are too many cookie-cutter pastors, churches, and ministries and not enough pastors fulfilling their unique callings."

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"You and I have to radically alter our schedules so we can spend time taking in the vision God has for us and our ministries."

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"When you get right down to it, resting is a faith issue."

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"We must stop pursuing the Great Commission at the expense of the Great Commandment."

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"If we want to lead our team effectively, we must spend time with and demonstrate care for our team!"

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"Determine what you expect of your team, and then make it clear. Say it. Write it down. Schedule team member reviews as often as necessary. Hold everyone accountable to meeting the expectations."

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"If we really believed that Jesus was the hope of the world, we as pastors would spend more time with him."

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"Our success in ministry will largely rise and fall based on our team."

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"When you are convinced of your direction, you won’t quit when the low times roll in."

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All quotes are from Shawn Lovejoy in his book: The Measure of Our Success: An Impassioned Plea to Pastors. You can purchase his book here. 

Quotes on Prayer

“Prayer is the vital breath of Christians. Not the thing that makes us alive, but the evidence we are alive.” - Oswald Chambers 

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“As it is the business of tailors to make clothes and of cobblers to mend shoes, so it is the business of Christians to pray.” - Martin Luther”

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“Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still.” - E.M. Bounds

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“Through prayer, our hearts are aligned with God’s heart so that we gain spiritual insight.”  - Bruce Zachary

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“When we depend upon organizations, we get what organizations can do; when we depend upon education, we get what education can do; when we depend upon man, we get what man can do; but when we depend upon prayer, we get what God can do.” -A.C. Dixon

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“Reading a book about prayer, listening to lectures and talking about it is very good, but it won’t teach you to pray. You get nothing without exercise, without practice. I might listen for a year to a professor of music playing the most beautiful music, but that won’t teach me to play an instrument.” -Andrew Murray”

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"If you are strangers to prayer you are strangers to power." - Billy Sunday

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“Most of the great movements of God can be traced to a small group of people He called together to begin praying.” - Donald Whitney

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“Little prayer, little power. Much prayer, much power.” - Rick Warren

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"He who kneels the most, stands the best.” -Dwight L. Moody

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“Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden” -Corrie Ten Boom

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“It is possible to move men, through God, by prayer alone.” -Hudson Taylor

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“Prayer is the way you defeat the devil, reach the lost, restore a backslider, strengthen the saints, send missionaries out, cure the sick, accomplish the impossible, and know the will of God.” -David Jeremiah

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“There are more battles won through prayer than by any other means.” -Chuck Smith

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”Prayer is the great engine to overthrow and rout my spiritual enemies, the great means to procure the graces of which I stand in hourly need.” - John Newton

Measure of Success (pt2) by Shawn Lovejoy

"Love is the essence of the Christian life. There is nothing deeper than that."

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"The main reason so many of us are struggling stems from our definition of success."

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"Success is being faithful with what we have."

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"The only way we can escape criticism is to say nothing, do nothing, and be nothing."

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"We must not succumb to the temptation to do anything for anyone other than what our God has commanded."

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"Strategically, Jesus pulled away from the crowds to rest and rejuvenate."

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"Date nights don’t have to be grandiose, just consistent."

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"If our attendance growth comes at the expense of our ability to disciple people, we have not been successful."

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"Busyness does not equal effectiveness."

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"Too many of us are condemning other leaders simply because we’re insecure in our own skin. Jealousy breeds condemnation."

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"Leadership always involves people."

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"Just as it was with Jesus, our team is our first ministry responsibility."

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"How can we expect others to listen to our instruction if we don’t even fully pattern our lives after Jesus?"

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"I know we often think that if we leave a situation alone, it will go away. It is just not true."

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"If all our focus is on building bigger crowds, we are simply not building the church."

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"Consistency works!"

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All quotes were from Shawn Lovejoy in his book: Measure of Our Success, The: An Impassioned Plea to Pastors. You can purchase his book here. 

Quotes on The Bible

“Christians who neglect the Bible simply do not mature.” -John Stott

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"The Bible is the Constitution of Christianity” -Billy Graham

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“The Bible will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from the Bible”. -Dwight L. Moody

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“Christians cannot live victoriously when disconnected from the Word of God” - Brian Brodersen

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"Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian." -A. W. Tozer

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”The bible is a mine that can never be exhausted of all of it's treasures." - Levi Lusko

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“A Bible that’s falling apart usually belongs to someone who isn’t.” -Charles H. Spurgeon

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"The Bible is the book of my life. It's the book I live with, the book I live by, the book I want to die by." -N. T. Wright

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“The Bible is to me the most precious thing in the world just because it tells me the story of Jesus.” -George MacDonald

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"Nobody ever outgrows Scriptures;  the Book widens and deepens with our years” -Charles H Spurgeon

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“Just as you must eat, drink, and breathe to live, you must read the Bible, pray, and be involved in a church to stay spiritually alive and vital. You never will outgrow these things.” -Greg Laurie

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“The Bible is not an end in itself, but a means to bring men to an intimate and satisfying knowledge of God, that they may enter into Him, that they may delight in His Presence, may taste and know the inner sweetness of the very God Himself in the core and center of their hearts.” - A. W. Tozer

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“We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behavior.” -John Stott

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“Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.” -Francis Schaeffer

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“There's no better book with which to defend the Bible than the Bible itself.” -Dwight L. Moody

Measure of Success (pt1) by Shawn Lovejoy

"Our root problem is that we have exchanged God’s definition of success for our own."

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"Success is being faithful with what we have."

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"Don’t be afraid to ask for guidance from some leaders who have gone ahead of you. Many are more than willing to invest their time and energy into you and your leadership potential."

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"Ministry can be a roller coaster of emotions."

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"Pastors and ministry leaders ought to model a way of life and a level of integrity worthy of being followed."

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"We cannot keep the church unified by shying away from conflict."

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"For a church to be effective, Jesus must be at the center of it."

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"Faith is doing what God has called us to do even when we are scared."

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"The truth is, leaders set culture by design or by default."

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"An amazing sense of freedom comes with becoming secure in our own skin, secure in who we are, and secure in what God has called us to be and do."

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"We must stop using people to get ministry done. People are our ministry."

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"All of us forget that what we do echoes into eternity. We all need a reminder."

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"People are attracted to love. Love never goes out of style, and it never becomes irrelevant."

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"Jesus taught the crowds, but he invested in leaders."

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"Realigning ourselves with Jesus and not our own efforts should be the measure of our success."

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All quotes are from Shawn Lovejoy in his book: The Measure of Our Success: An Impassioned Plea to Pastors. You can purchase his book here.