“It is so much about our relationship with Christ and prioritizing our own thing with him and then the teaching coming out of that because it makes all the difference in the world.”
“I would guess that somewhere around 80% or so of the topics that I end up developing have come directly out of my own time with God, my own prayer time, my own devotional time.”
“The proximity of the seminary didn’t work for my family. But I learned how to use secondary sources, which for me has been a gift beyond measure.”
“My tendency is that I want my listeners or those who are at the event to learn everything that I did, everything. Well, they can’t.”
“As much as anything in preparation, I’m praying through, ‘How now Lord, do I get all of this? What do they need?’”
“Time, again, to let it sit. To let it sit on me…I have to have time to let those Scriptures then, as some of my friends will say, marinate.”
“What I’m asking him to do continually, I’m saying, ‘Holy Spirit, help me to remember that this is about receiving and not achieving, that I’m not trying to achieve something here.’”
“I do have my notes down. Every word? Absolutely not.”
“So often in preparing, we’ve done the front side, but we do not recognize how important that landing is.”
“If it makes it stick, if they remember it when they leave, if that for some reason made that thing click, I am willing to be the biggest fool in all of Texas.”
“I’m looking continually at the audience as I go up and do my greeting…from the time I hit that stage and start looking in the eyes of my participants, I am looking for ways to connect.”
“There’s just really no replacing experience, that you just practice teaching.”
“None of us is going to be everybody’s communicator. You’re not going to do it. You’re not going to do it. Be as true to your gifting and the way that God has developed you. Be authentic in the way you approach it.”
“Never, never underestimate the power of having to just get up again.”
“It never gets to where I still don’t blow a message badly enough to think, ‘Why did you ever think you could do this?’ But the fact is, I’ve got the next time. I’ve got to get up.”
“A class knows if we love and esteem them. And we can mess up a good bit and them know that we are trying our hardest and didn’t realize our error until we could come back and say, ‘You know, I wish I’d done that differently.’ They know that we love them. Or they know if we don’t.”
