The Top 45 Leadership Quotes I Heard The Week Of November 5th

This past week I had the privilege of attending the RightNow Conference in Dallas, TX.  I was asked to do live blogging from the event and experienced a firehose of leadership information.  I definitely recommend that every pastor and church leader put this on your yearly list of events to attend.

The following are the best leadership quotes I heard this week.  To get each speaker’s full list of quotes, simply click on their names.  

Scott Williams – author, blogger, consultant and runs the site Big Is The New Small

• The Obama campaign out-tweeted the Romney campaign 8-1.
• If it’s not consistent, it’s not of value.  If it’s not of value, why are you doing it?

Tim Ross – Associate Pastor at Gateway Church

• The Holy Spirit does not give ambition. The Holy Spirit gives a burden.
• Good things are one ”Oh” too many from being a God-thing.

Matt Carter – Pastor of Preaching and Vision at Austin Stone Church

• When we aimed at community we did not get mission. When we aimed as mission we got mission and community.
• Are people confessing and repenting and being restored from their sin?  The religious community runs from sin and church when they sin because they fear the wrath of the church more than they fear the wrath of God.
• If Jesus is not the center of your church, He says, “I am removing my manifest presence from your church.” The last thing I want to do is pastor a church that does not have the presence of Jesus.
• If you love your mission more than your Savior, He will not be part of your mission.

Jen Hatmaker – conference speaker, blogger, and author

• We were simply serving saved people in a city that is completely lost. (Austin, TX is 93% unchurched).
• We had a “come-to-us” paradigm in a city where no one was coming to us.
• We were blessing blessed people.
• Only Christians want a church with 49 programs.
• The church has a limited amount of resources. If saved people consume them all, we have nothing more missional activity.
• Heaps of well-spoken theology only impresses Christians who are in to that sort of thing. 
• We are nothing if not disciples first. We do not get to shirk that responsibility because we wear the “Christian hat”.
• To tell a better story we are going to have to live a better story and be watched first.

Todd Wagner – Senior Pastor of Watermark Community Church

• All of life is a leadership test. The reward of faithful service is the opportunity to serve more.
• Some of us are called to have well-done ministries that the world may never know about except Him.
• You cannot keep selling something you are not convinced you (personally) need to buy.
• Just because I’m a pastor doesn’t mean I still can’t be a Christian.
• The greatest evil in this country is that which God has called salt and light and to dispel darkness is not doing our job.

J.D. Greear – Senior Pastor of The Summit Church in Raleigh-Durham

• Our prayer changed from “God, let us grow a great big church” to “God, let us bless those in our city”.
• 39 out of 40 of the miracles in the Book of Acts happened outside the church.
• When I became a pastor I left the ministry because I took a backseat to those who perform the 39 of 40 miracles that happened outside the church.
• Our business people can get the gospel into places we can never dream of.
• The 10/40 Window is door they (business leaders) are invited to walk through.
• Mega churches are fighting over a rapidly shrinking pie.  We need a bigger pie.
• Most church leaders are more worried about recruiting volunteers rather than training leaders.
• The best ministry ideas come from the congregation, not the offices of the church.
• College students travel in herds…In two weeks our attendance tripled and our offering went up $13.48.

 Tara Russell – CEO and Founder of Create Common Good

• When you work with women in prostitution your work never ends…It’s a constant churn.
• The more people you manage the less you care about people.

 Dave Ramsey –  author, radio personality, and creator of Financial Peace University

• Thoroughbreds don’t run with donkeys. They run with other thoroughbreds.
• Chaos is always around excellence. Creativity does not happen in controlled environments.
• If they can’t live on what you pay, you are going to have bitterness and problems.
• We have a no tolerance policy for gossip. I will warn you once and then set you free…If we have problems in our organization it’s probably why you’re there. It probably means you’re there to fix it…I don’t understand why people pee in their cereal and wonder why it tastes bad.

Eric Mason -Lead Pastor of Epiphany Fellowship in Philadelphia

• As parents we often look at the sinfulness of our children’s sin but now our own.
• A deeply repentant person knows the collateral damage their sin caused to those around them.
• As men we tend to want people to just get over it…Instead of flowers we need to give the gift of repentance.
• It’s wonderful to have a friend who doesn’t judge the mess, but helps us clean it up. That’s what Jesus does.

Afshin Ziafat – Lead Pastor of Providence Church in Frisco, TX

• In America a book called Radical would be called Normal in the scriptures. It’s only called Radicalbecause we live in America.
• When the tough times come, that is when your faith will most reveal itself.

Bill McCartney – former head football coach of the Colorado Buffaloes and Founder of Promise Keepers

• The strongest form of motivation is encouragement.
• Mom comes to faith there is a 19% chance the family will come to faith. Dad comes to faith there is a 93% chance the family will come to faith.

Allen White

• Facebook is the 3rd largest nation on the earth.China, India & then Facebook.

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