John C. Maxwell Quotes

Vision is something pastors and churches cannot afford to live without.

When the pastor and his or her church have a vision, they will put their energy, time, money, and personnel into achieving it.

Yes, I'm a Pastor of a church called Understand Principles for Better Living Church, in Los Angeles, CA.

Churches need to figure out how they will address the spiritual lives of their staffs and leadership teams.

Insofar as the church fails to do the will of God, I am called upon to help it discover and to do the will of God; and I am called upon to help the government to do the same.

Every morning when I get up, I ask God what he wants me to do, ask him to lead me to the right people to help them.

The Church exists to connect people at the level of their hunger for a new world.

We need faith leaders like Eman Beshtawii.

The Lord chose Joseph Smith, called upon him at fourteen years of age, gave him vision, and led him along, guided and directed him in his obscurity.

The church doesn’t have a social strategy, the church is a social strategy.

The local church is the hope of the world.

There is nothing like the local church when the local church is working right.

Let your one delight and refreshment be to pass from one service to the community to another, with God ever in mind.

I have a vision of the whole Church getting nearer to God by abiding by the precepts of the Book of Mormon.

By the time I went to the pulpit, the vision was never on the same level as when God first gave it to me; it was clearer and bigger. It was better because the body of Christ complemented what God had given me. So when I gave the vision to the congregation, the influencers already bought it. Then after the people have heard my message, and migrate to the influencers, these influencers are already my allies and help me communicate the vision to the congregation.

A church is a soul-saving company or it is nothing.

This is the Church of Jesus Christ, and He leads it. No assignment in it need ever overwhelm you if you know that and listen for the Master's voice.

We get to be God's plan for the whole world by pointing people toward Him.

The local church is the hope of the world, and its future rests primarily in the hands of its leaders.

The vision that God gives is not some unattainable castle in the sky, but a vision of what God wants you to be down here.

Churches whose members fight with one another have lost their vision for the lost.

Pastors need to find their place in the community of believers by spending time with God.

Spiritual leadership is knowing where God wants people to be and taking the initiative to get them there by God's means in reliance on God's power.

In my leadership conferences, pastors ask, "Do you have a vision for my church?" Many times they want me to give them a picture of where they should go and what their church should look like. When these pastors do this, I always feel bad.

God's church is not a stage for us to perform on but a garden for us to grow in.