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Stephen Kendrick Biography

Stephen Kendrick is a Christian American film writer and producer, co-writer of the book The Love Dare with brother Alex Kendrick, and senior associate pastor at Sherwood Baptist Church in Albany, Georgia.

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We grew up in a praying home [with Alex Kendrick], we saw incredible answers to prayer in our parents' lives, they grew up in praying homes, our father launched a Christian school with nothing, basically he had some people that believed in the project but they had very little resources, and we watched our parents deal with those issues first in prayer, and then when they went out knocking on doors they saw amazing doors answered and resources come in.

Alex, Christian, Deal, Father, Prayer

I'm not trying to force something, but I do enjoy working behind the scenes and I do enjoy bringing all of the ingredients to the kitchen so that we can make the movie.

Kitchen, Trying, Behind The Scenes, Working, Scenes, Force

But after about a year praying, there was just this clear direction. The leadership team believed that God was leading us to focus on fatherhood. If God is leading, then God will provide. So we begin to get storyline ideas that lined up with the subject of fatherhood that we're working on and fitting, and we were thinking, okay this is good. At the same time, as we are studying scriptures and we're on our journey as fathers, we are learning about fatherhood every day.

Believed, Father, Fatherhood, Subject, Team, Thinking

We still had the prayer support of our church. We shot this film [War Room] in Charlotte, North Carolina, and we had about 85 churches rise up and support us across racial and denominational lines, and many of them were praying for us, and we built some prayer teams where we had people on set praying.

Church, Film, Prayer, Racial, Team, War

Get in God's word every day. God's word equips us for everything we do.

Day, Equips, Everything, Word

Excellence means representing the reputation of Christ well. It means doing all things as best as you can. . .

Christ, Excellence, Mean, Reputation

There must be a stronger foundation than mere friendship or sexual attraction. Unconditional love, agape love, will not be swayed by time or circumstances.

Agape, Foundation, Sexual, Stronger, Swayed, Unconditional Love

With Courageous, it was the first film where we really began to pay our cast. Because the church owned the previous films and we started so small, with such small budgets, people were just volunteering on the cast and crew.

Church, Film, People, Previous, Volunteer, Volunteering

By the time we got to Courageous, we were bringing in more outsiders, so any time we would bring in outsiders, we would offer to pay them, and [as for volunteers from] the church, because they were getting the benefit of the income to all the ministries of the church and the mission, the building program and all those things, they knew up-front that they were volunteering and gladly did so.

Church, Courageous, Income, Pay, Volunteer, Volunteers

One of the days we unpack finding out how your kids are wired, what kind of intelligence has God given them, how do they give and receive love, what the passions of their life, how does their birth order and their gender affect them because all of those things are part of the tapestry that God is weaving together to use each of our children for His glory.

Affect, Children, Kids, Passion, Tapestry, Weaving

Almost every sinful action ever committed can be traced back to a selfish motive. It is a trait we hate in other people but justify in ourselves.

Hate, Marriage, Selfish, Trait

Too often, parents force their kids into becoming something they want them to become rather than trying unpack the treasure chest God wants them to become.

Become, Becoming, Chest, Kids, Parent, Trying

The only way love can last a lifetime is if it's unconditional. The truth is this: love is not determined by the one being loved but rather by the one choosing to love.

Choosing, Love, Relationship, Truth, Unconditional

You must choose to live by enouragement rather than by expectations.

Expectations, Live By, Enouragement, Choose, Live

In churches, we see that getting people to show up for a prayer meeting is a lot more difficult than a concert or service project or just about anything else. So we were thinking, we're stepping into some unknown territory here that could be as profitable, or it could be a box-office flop, but there was a rightness about it. And so this whole idea of the war room being like a spiritual warfare room, a place of prayer where you get alone with God and you're making your decisions and you're dealing with your issues first in prayer.

God, Prayer, Project, Spiritual, Stepping, War

Don't try to tackle a two-hour feature movie as your first project. Cut your teeth on a smaller level and work through the kinks at that level and build your strength as you go.

Build, Cutting, Smaller, Strength, Trying, Two

Prayer doesn't sound like a cool hot topic that would cause people to rush to the theatre, stand in line, and buy tickets about prayer.

Buy, People, Prayer, Rush, Sound, Theatre

The only way love can last a lifetime is if it’s unconditional.

Lasts, Lifetime, Love, Unconditional Love, Way

We [me and Alex Kendrick] had our pastor's blessing back in 2013 to launch out, and so we shot [ War Room] last year, in 2014, but we still had the church pray over us , before the movie hit theatres, and the pastor was asking God to bless the film, and so we're very excited about what's happening.

War, Blessing, Past, Back, God

Love chooses to believe the best about people. It gives them the benefit of the doubt. It refuses to fill in the unknowns with negative assumptions. And when our worst hopes are proven to be true, love makes every effort to deal with them and move forward. As much as possible, love focuses on the positive.

Assumptions, Believe, Love, Moving, People, Possible

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