Live Blog From Orange Conference ’15: 30 Leadership Quotes From Andy Stanley

In an effort to add value to pastors and church leaders, I am live blogging significant portions of this week’s Orange Conference and their amazing Senior Leader’ Track.  For pastors and church leaders, this is the most informative and thought-provocing three days you can spend all year.  It is “can’t miss” event for church leaders.

The second day’s opening plenary session was led by Andy Stanley, the pastor of North Point Community Church along with Reggie Joiner, who heads up Orange and Jim Mellado, president of Compassion International.

Before getting to Andy’s thoughts on why churches stop growing, INJOY Stewardship Solutions is offering a FREE download of Church Branding 101.  In this resource Ken Wilson, Director of NewSpring Creative, will be walking us through NewSpring Church’s recent rebranding process.  If you are unfamiliar with NewSpring, they are led by friend-of-Orange Senior Pastor Perry Noble.  You do not want to miss this.  Click here or on the image above to sign up.  Now onto the lessons from today’s opening session.

The following are 39 Leadership Quotes and Lessons from the morning’s opening plenary session:

Reggie Joiner

1. A phase is a timeframe in a kid’s life where you can make an impact on their future.
2. As a leader, the one thing you all have in common is you have an interest in the future of a kid.
3. You want that kid to become fully alive and live forever.
4. We want to partner with churches who believe in the future of a kid.

Jim Mellado

1. My mom knows what it’s like to keep a dirt floor clean.
2. When someone grows up in poverty they never know that’s going to be a benefit to their child.
3. Growing in poverty imparted a certain DNA in the life of their children.
4. Hope is optimism plus a belief there is a path out of your adversity.
5. How can we help my kids step into the shoes of another child?

Andy Stanley

1. Preacher’s kids need another consistent voice in their lives over the years.
2. Me and Sandra are thoroughly satisfied customers as parents of kids who came through this (Orange) model.
3. What is this generation of students worth? It’s worth everything.
4. My kids think you are always supposed to be in a small group and lead one.
5. We want time in with our kids not time out.
6. When Nehemiah’s heart was broken he paid attention to his broken heart.
7. Who are you and what breaks your heart?
8. What breaks my heart is in the United States hundreds of thousands wake up on a Sunday and church never crosses their mind.
9. God uses broken-hearted leaders.
10. The reason we’re here today is because years ago God broke Reggie Joiner’s heart over the state of children.
11. When you harness your leadership skill to your broken heart change happens.
12. Leaders are all about what isn’t and what-needs-to-be be.
13. Leaders are all about changing things to what should be.
14. Leaders make things better and that requires change.
15. Leaders love progress.
16. Progress requires change.
17. This is why we give up on things that break our heart because it requires change.
18. Leaders fix things that are broken.
19. Fixing things requires change and change always creates conflict. But that is why you are a leader.
20. Leaders don’t blame.
21. There is a big difference between being a leader and actually leading.
22. Every local church has a leader but it seems so few local churches are being led.
23. Blame is a change-avoidance strategy.
24. We are not all leaders. We are called leaders.
25. Nehemiah’s broken heart was part of a divine design.
26. You have no idea what hangs in the balance of you decision on what to do with the burden God put in your heart.
27. You have no idea who hangs in the balance of you decision on what to do with the burden God put in your heart.
28. “I know what I would like people to line up and thank me for at the end of my life.” – Sandra Stanley
29. Many years from now what would you like people to line up and thank you for.
30. You are where you are because the generation before you paid attention to their broken heart.

Next is Geoff Surratt’s session 5 Questions Every Church Must Answer.

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