Live Blog: 2016 Leadership Summit – 47 Leadership Quotes From Bishop T.D. Jakes

In an effort to add value to pastors and church leaders during the next three days, I will be bringing the top leadership quotes and lessons from the incredible faculty at the Willow Creek Global Leadership Summit.

The Global Leadership Summit is a two-day event telecast from Willow Creek Community Church’s campus to hundreds of locations across the globe.  An estimated 305,000 leaders are expected to participate.

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The day’s next speaker was Bishop T.D. Jakes.  Bishop Jakes is a visionary, provocative thinker and entrepreneur who serves as senior pastor of The Potter’s House, a global humanitarian organization and 30,000-member church. He was also named “America’s Best Preacher” by Time Magazine.

The following are 47 Leadership Lessons And Quotes From Bishop T.D. Jakes from the 2016 Global Leadership Summit:

1. What gets us into trouble is we get trapped by titles.
2. We allow people to put a period in our life where God put a comma.
3. I want to see what is in me.
4. I’m called to communicate.
5. He opened my mouth to speak.
6. We are often underutilized and what we think is burnout, is we are just under-challenged.
7. If every day’s challenge is the same as yesterday, you’re not growing.
8. We need to be challenged every day.
9. Haters are a symptom you are on the right track. If you don’t endure the symptoms, you can’t enjoy success.
10. God didn’t call you to change their mind.
11. Haters are the seducers.
12. Jesus taught people through parables.
13. The art of great storytelling is to allow people to see themselves without assaulting them.
14. There are more people in movie theaters on Friday nights than on church in Sunday mornings.
15. You are no greater than the people you put around you. Jesus spent more time with the 12 than the 5,000.
16. I don’t think you can be great until you’re around great people and not be intimidated.
17. We have limited our dreams to a tribal perspective when we have a global God.
18. At the end of every day I will not get everything done I need to do. There’s always going to be something I miss everyday. The art is not to let it be the same thing twice.
19. If I have to hold it to have it, I have hired the wrong people.
20. Anytime you take on new things it takes you time to manage it.
21. Jesus got tired. Everybody gets tired. You’re going to get tired.
22. You need to restructure so you can carry it.
23. It is not where we want to go that is the biggest problem. The biggest problem is what am I willing to leave behind to get where I need to go.
24. I think I can be a conduit where faith can become mainstream.
25. The reason we get a fever is the body is telling us something is wrong.
26. It (race relations) is drawing attention to things we drive by without noticing.
27. A problem you ignore long enough will show up in a symptom that hurts you.
28. Systemic racism is if you have not included them in the strategy for success.
29. Our American dream has become their American nightmare.
30. When people can’t eat and can’t get a job, there will be swelling that cannot be ignored.
31. I could get up on my feet if you didn’t cut off my legs.
32. We have left people behind who refuse to be ignored.
33. We have wars we don’t have a strategy to win.
34. Anarchy erupts when someone in power forgets someone who isn’t.
35. When you recognize the brotherhood of men you experience the power of God.
36. The church has done the worst job of recognizing the brotherhood.
37. You have to be intentional about love.
38. You have to tear down the natural tendency of people to be comfortable.
39. We were much more like God when we were creating.
40. The very first thing God told men to do was to be fruitful.
41. If you give a person a strategy it’s better than giving person a check.
42. If you do church the way your father did church, you will miss what God has for you. Joshua didn’t do what Moses did.
43. You are gifted and you gifted with multiple gifts.
44. What are you going to do with what God gave you.
45. God has given you more than what your life shows.
46. I do not want you to die wondering what would have happened if you lived your life to the fullest.
47. If you can think the impossible, the unthinkable, you will be shocked how you can reach the unfathomable.

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