Rick is the author of the NY Times best seller, The Purpose Driven Life. He has also recently made it his goal to work to bring P.E.A.C.E. throughout the globe. Here's the highlight of his closing talk.
- Listen to your wife. She's often the Holy Spirit.
- Before you marry, opposites attract. After you marry, opposites attack.
- The purpose of marriage is not to make you happy; it is to make you holy.
- God gave you your wife not just for sex, not just to mother your children, but to be a counselor to you too. You don't have it all together. You need other people, especially your wife.
- God said, “I never called you to compare yourself to others. If you do, you will limit what I want you to do in your life. I want you to be you.”
- Growing churches require growing pastors. The moment you stop growing, the church will stop growing. Leaders are learners. The moment you stop learning, you'll stop leading.
- There is one thing you cannot delegate and that is faith in God.
- Rest and relaxation are so important that God put it into the Big 10 right next to murder and adultery.
- Don't call it a day off, call it a Sabbath. If you call it a day off, you'll violate it.
- Don't pay attention to critics and compliments. They are both like bubblegum: chew on it, but don't swallow it. You have to do your work for an audience of one.
- A great commitment to the Great Commandment and the Great Commission will grow a great church, Christian, community.
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