Back for Day 3 of the Orange Conference is wrapping up! I want to thank Orange for allowing me to be part of their blogging team and Injoy Stewardship Solutions (ISS) for allowing me to attend this amazing event.
The final session I attend is the Senior Pastors Luncheon. Led by Carey Nieuwhof, Jeff Henderson, Perry Noble and others. This is my favorite session each year. The following are 36 leadership quotes I captured during the session. The quotes of each speaker are by their comments.
- Leadership is not as only as it needs to be. – CN
- When kids invite their parents to church the parents are almost guilted into going. – JH
- The secret sauce to North Point is incredible ministry to children. – JH
- I see three things in children’s ministry – Clean, Safe and Fun. Parents don’t care about anything else. – PN
- Kids don’t care about theology. They just want to have fun. – PN
- This generation is not as unchurched as we think they’re going to be. – PN
- Every church planter you meet wants to tell you why their town is the worst place to plant a church. – PN
- The sooner we can get students to start serving in the church the quicker they’re going to fall in love with the church. – JH
- Every family I see I get in my mind they’re just jacked up. – PN
- Everybody in the church we come from fallen backgrounds. – PN
- Everybody’s family we all have issues. If we run away from issues we need to give up. You need to be involved in one messy situation currently. – JH
- I would much rather have that conversation (a lesbian couple) than someone who thinks the music is too loud. – JH
- It’s O.K. if you disagree with the way I do ministry. There’s two type of questions – Clarification, Condemnation. You can take the questions on Condemnation and stick them where the sun don’t shine. – PN
- The person with an experience is not held captive by a person with an opinion. – Dave Ramsey
- I’m O.K. with someone who has a problem. It’s the way they approach it. – PN
- We can focus on the table prepared for us or our enemies. – PN
- The world is watching us beat each other up. – JH
- My kids love the church. Sundays is one of their highlights of the week. – JH
- Everything really does affect everything. – PN
- You can’t get over it because you never dealt with it. – PN
- I had 20 years of pent up emotions that were killing my soul. – PN
- I was a control freak and the church got so big I couldn’t control it. – PN
- If you’re struggle with something and the people of God fire you, you don’t have a lot of people who love God. – PN
- You believer two lies. No one will understand me and I have no one to talk to about this. – PN
- More is a mirage. – JH
- If you have a big church, you think all your issues will go away. They get amplified. – JH
- If I’m satisfied with Jesus, I’ll take what comes my way. – JH
- God couldn’t let it explode if I was not healthy…If you want to see your ministry grow, get healthy. If you get healthy, slow down. – PN
- You need to have someone check in on you periodically. Someone must be able to check on you and see where you are physically and emotionally. – JH
- Often in congregational ministry you just feel trapped. – CN
- The problem we face as pastors is we don’t have a release valve…We don’t have the safe environment. – PN
- Anybody on our staff that is struggling with anything can come forward, admit their struggle and not be fired. – PN
- Who can pastor the pastors? – PN
- I really do feel good about the future of the church. – PN
- You’re tweeting your burger but I’m tweeting someone coming to Jesus. – PN
- Just because the world’s in bad shape doesn’t give us permission to be in bad shape. – PN
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