Live Blog – 32 Leadership Quotes From Perry Noble At Most Excellent Way To Lead Conference

In an effort to add maximum value to pastors and church leaders, INJOY Stewardship Solutions has dispatched me to attend The Most Excellent Way To Lead Conference at NewSpring Church.  I will be bringing some of the top leadership lessons from the conference designed to challenge and equip pastors and church leaders to take their leadership to a higher level.

The incomparable senior pastor of NewSpring Church Perry Noble opened the conference in style as he taught principles from his new book The Most Excellent Way To Lead.

Before getting to Perry’s comments, I want to invite you to a FREE, LIVE webinar I will be conducting on March 30th entitled “10 Keys To A Successful Fall Capital Campaign.”  If your church needs to raise funds this fall, click HERE.  It would be an honor to personally invest in you and your church.  Now, onto Perry’s thoughts.

The following are 32 Leadership Quotes And Lessons From Perry Noble’s opening session at The Most Excellent Way To Lead Conference:

1. I got my first official leadership position in 1991.
2. The Baptist definition of progress is moving backwards slowly.
3. I would recommend a Disney Cruise to everyone in this room to learn leadership.
4. We started this church with 15 people in a living room.
5. All truth is God’s truth and it will work in your business.
6. That’s the most excellent way to lead.
7. Leading people through love does not sound leadership-esque but it will get the best results.
8. If you hunt with a deer camera you are not a true hunter.
9. We all deal with this thing called insecurity.
10. Position leadership can only be successful for so long.
11. Insecurity = instability. Instability = Inability.
12. A lot of businesses are thriving in this economy.
13. If we are going to be the most excellent leaders we’ve got to be students of the people we lead.
14. Jesus was close to the people He led.
15. Jesus is the best leader who ever lived.
16. He modeled what it is like to lead people.
17. If you are a leader with character, when they see you, they will follow you anywhere.
18. If you want done right, you’ve got to do it yourself. Only if you’re a bad leader.
19. I look for talented, hard-working people. You need both.
20. Hard work beats talent when talent does not work hard.
21. I’m not looking for the person with the most degrees behind their name. The person with the most degrees behind their name probably hasn’t had a conversation with a normal person in years.
22. Leaders that love people and leaders love their cause love them too much to allow prayer to become an excuse for inactivity.
23. One of the things about the church world is the inability to have tough conversations.
24. I don’t like having tough conversations.
25. As a leader it is our job to love who people are becoming more than what they are doing.
26. We absolutely pray. But we also plant, plow and perspire in order to see vision become reality.
27. I stopped watching news shows in general. And my anxiety level, I was like a flower child.
28. People are leaving the church. WHAT A FREAKIN’ OPPORTUNITY BECAUSE THERE’S MORE PEOPLE TO REACH!!!
29. We don’t walk around with our heads down.
30. The tomb is alive.
31. Nobody’s arguing He rose from the grave.
32. God didn’t give us technology to see porn quicker. He gave us technology to reach the world faster.

Simply amazing!  Next up will be Lysa TerKeurst, president of Proverbs 31 Ministries.

As a reminder, if your church needs to raise capital this fall, click HERE or on the image provided to sign up for my March 30th FREE, LIVE webinar entitled 10 Keys To A Successful Fall Capital Campaign.  It would be an honor to serve you and your church.