One of my favorite books is 7 Practices Of Effective Ministry. Co-authored by Andy Stanley, Reggie Joiner, and Lane Jones, this book has greatly impacted my views related to ministry, leadership and systems. Therefore, I want to pass along many of the key learnings to you.
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The following are 35 Leadership Quotes And Lessons From 7 Practices Of Effective Ministry:
- “The first step was always the most difficult: getting a young leader to recognize that before circumstances could change, he might have to change.”
- “You need to know when you’re getting ahead, and your people need to know when to cheer.”
- “You have to decide where a win happens best for you. Is it your Sunday morning service or somewhere else?”
- “The tendency in business, or in church work for that matter, is to mistake activity for progress…if all that activity isn’t taking you where you want to go, then it’s just wasted time.”
- “A flood is just a river that couldn’t decide where it wanted to go.”
- “Pitchers don’t need to hit well; they need to pitch well. Every step you create needs to do what it does best and nothing more.”
- “Baseball players really only need to know a few things to do their jobs.”
- “You have to see the good of the organization as more important than your own. You have to be able to resist that natural reaction to protect yourself and your position.”
- “Great leadership needs to be developed through a system of apprenticing replacements and duplication.”
- “You can’t manage what you can’t measure.”
- “Nothing hinders morale more than when team members with separate agendas are pulling against one another.”
- “One distinguishing feature that makes a church different from most organizations is the number of volunteers required to fulfill its mission.”
- “When you clarify the win, you can manage your resources more effectively.”
- “When you clarify the win, it creates the potential for positive momentum.”
- “As long as they’re winning, people will give you their time, their money, and their hearts.”
- “In the end, if students participate in an effective small group, we win. If they don’t, we lose.”
- “Good leaders develop the habit of reminding everyone – and each other – what’s really important.”
- “The more consistent we were at communicating the win for every program and department, the easier it was to keep our leaders and volunteers from taking unintended detours.”
- “A hit is not really a hit unless you get on base.”
- “The gravitational pull of a church is usually toward overprogramming.”
- “The primary goal is not to meet someone’s need, but rather to help someone get where they need to go.”
- “Every ministry environment you create should help build bridges relationally.”
- “It’s too easy for an organization to develop programs that lead people in another direction or allow them to get stuck. We call that ‘sideways energy.'”
- “The sobering truth is that many of weaken our potential by investing too much time in the areas of our lives where we have the least potential.”
- “There is a natural tendency to drift toward complexity…resist complexity and pursue simplicity.”
- “A good leader is always more passionate about the mission than about the program.”
- “Narrowing your focus means developing a team of specialists who may not do everything well, but are experts in the areas assigned to them.”
- “”Churches that breed specialists have a clear advantage over churches that are full of generalists.”
- “All knowledge is not equal.”
- “We consider our volunteer force to be our most critical resource.”
- “The most effective way to train people is to model what needs to be done by apprenticing.”
- “Everyone learns best from mistakes, so allow others to learn from theirs. Your job is to help push someone else across the goal line for the score.”
- “The fundamentals tend to break down with even the best players if they don’t work on their skills.”
- “You can’t evaluate something if you stay in the middle of it too long.”
- “We have discovered that in these moments of created margin, we get some of our best ideas.”
Which of these quotes stuck out the most to you and why?
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