Live Blog From Catalyst ’14 – 31 Leadership Quotes And Lessons From Andy Stanley Closing Session

As a member of the Catalyst Blog Team and INJOY Stewardship Solutions, I will be bringing you live updates from the much anticipated Catalyst Conference in Atlanta, GA.  The theme for this year’s conference is Change Is Coming.

As is its annual tradition, the conference was concluded by the incomparable Andy Stanley, Founding Pastor of North Point Community Church.  There is no finer communicator of Christian leadership principles than Andy.  The following are 31 Leadership Quotes and Lessons from his closing session.

Also, before reading, make sure you check out the announcement from INJOY Stewardship Solutions shown below about a FREE webinar I will be conducting on October 16th for churches needing to raise capital in 2015.  Now onto Andy’s thoughts:

1. Only the leaders stay for the last session.
2. I save the best stuff for last.
3. I don’t think of losing staff. I launch staff.
4. Creating organizational change requires you craft a laser-focused vision statement
5. Memorable is portable.
6. Cast it over and over and over and over and over again to infinity and beyond.
7. You then organize to your vision statement.
8. You weren’t giving something up. You found something better. Leaders, point them in the direction of something better. They’ll never know they’re giving something up.
9. The worst place to begin a conversation around change is what you want changed.
10. Leaders help other people discover a better future, a preferred future.
11. Catalyst leaders aren’t just church leaders. Catalyst leaders are leaders who love the church.
12. The church should be the safest place on the planet for students to talk about anything.
13. If you don’t talk to them, they may get bad information from people who may be bad.
14. At our middle school event, we had 1,030 6^th
15. The church must stop expecting outsiders to act like insiders while insiders act like outsiders.
16. As like we throw truth grenades we look stupid and lose our credibility.
17. You say, “I’m a prophet.” No, you’re not. You are not a prophet. You are a member of the Body of Christ.
18. If every Christian just took a 3-month vacation from Porn, Weed, Premarital Sex, Adultery, Taxes, and every church foster a couple of kids, we would feel a change in our culture.
19. Why don’t we as Catalyst leader just knock that off for a while.
20. The church has created so many loopholes about divorce and remarriage we have to make it up.
21. Jesus doesn’t take sides. He takes over.
22. Jesus said, “If you remarry you commit adultery.” You cannot unone what God has made one.
23. If we dumb down what God has made clear, where does that stop?
24. Everywhere Jesus went did He raise the standard or lower it? He raised it so high.
25. It is OK for people to feel bad for what they have done because we need a savior.
26. Women flocked to the early church because it was the safest place for a woman because men looked at them like sisters rather than property.
27. The church must capture and keep the hearts and minds of students.
28. “Cause when you’re fifteen and someone tells you that they love them you are going to believe them.” – Taylor Swift
29. Do you know how many songs are written about 50 year olds. Zero.
30. What is generation of students worth? Everything.
31. You got to figure out what breaks your heart and burdens you.

Please join me on October 16th at 2:00 PM EST for a FREE webinar I will be conducting for INJOY Stewardship Solutions entitled How To Raise More Money In 2015 Than You Ever Thought Possible.  It will be a fun hour of equipping and training.  Click HERE or on the image to left to register today.