5LQ Episode 282: Annie F. Downs - Lifeway Leadership

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In this episode of the 5 Leadership Questions podcast, Todd Adkins and Daniel Im are joined by Annie F. Downs, podcast host and bestselling author of Remember God. During their conversation, they discuss how she keeps her relationship with God as the priority in her life and the importance of taking care of yourself to be able to fulfill the mission God has for you.

BEST QUOTES

“I want my readers to feel pastored.”

“Anyone can teach you how to shoot up like a firework, but fireworks explode and disappear. I want someone to teach my how to finish the race.”

“I have learned in the last year the discipline of prayer and the power of prayer in ways I never have before.”

“The presence of God is the gas that keeps this thing going.”

“Prayer and time in the presence of God are the two things that are going to help us finish well.”

“Does this feel like something your friend would say if you were sitting across the table having coffee?”

“My leadership emphasis is a personal relationship with God. Do you believe that God is who He says He is and His Word is true?”

“My hope is that how I lead is an overflow of how I am living with the people who have my phone number not just my Instagram handle.”

“We believe the Bible over our circumstances.”

“God is not going to ask me how many books I sold, but He is going to ask me how I treated people.”

“If we are going to go at any kind of pace that impacts the Kingdom, then we need to go at a pace that we have the right fuel to do.”

“I am just not willing for my body to give up before I am done with what God has for me.”

“For me in my home as a single person, leadership is about self-discipline.”

“If I was mentored by anyone, it was by the worst versions of myself.”

“Every good ministry is also a business.”

“The things I am doing now are for the person I want to be in 10 or 20 years.”

“Everything compounds to make you who you want to be.”