Live Blog From Duct Tape Workshop: 51 Leadership Quotes From Jeff Kapusta

In an effort to add value to pastors and church leaders, INJOY Stewardship Solutions has dispatched me to attend an event called Duck Tape Workshop.  This event is designed to help growing churches deliver ministry excellence without the extravagance.

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The morning’s first session was conducted by Jeff Kapusta.  Jeff is the founding and Lead Pastor of Lifepoint Church which has grown to nearly 2,000 weekly attenders. In 2009, Jeff was awarded with Liberty University’s Church Planter of the Year award.

The following are 51 Leadership Lessons And Quotes From Jeff Kapusta from the Duck Tape Workshop:

1. How do you know God called you to the beach? Because it’s the beach.
2. Last week we saw 189 people get baptized at the beach.
3. We were portable for 6.5 years.
4. We wouldn’t have made it if it wasn’t for the call of God and an incredible team.
5. Ministry’s tough and it’s unpredictable.
6. Duct tape makes a great temporary fix but a horrible solution.
7. Most of the time we’re grabbing the duct tape because something went wrong.
8. We’re not where we want to be. Thankfully we’re not where we used to be. We’re stuck in between.
9. Nobody told me when I got into ministry that having a vision of what could be and what should be can be very frustrating.
10. Nobody told me that when you start ministry that some people’s take off like rockets while others seem to always be looking for the launch codes.
11. One of the reasons we find ourselves frustrated in ministry is because we’re not where other people are.
12. We launched on the same day of Elevation Church in Charlotte so I understand comparison.
13. Aren’t you glad we serve a God who knows where we’re going and what we need to get there?
14. You’ve got a God who will fight for you.
15. You walk with a little bit of swagger when you know God’s got your back.
16. We want it and we want it now. God says, “I have something incredible for you but you can’t handle it right now.”
17. If we’re not careful our big faith can blind us to our broken reality.
18. As you increase your ministry will increase.
19. Do the little things like they’re big things.
20. We want God to do the big things but we don’t’ want to do the little things.
21. Don’t ask God to do the big things if you’re unwilling to do the little things.
22. As a leader I’m guilty for always looking for the next big thing.
23. When you become the best with what you’ve got, God will give you more.
24. Never lose the significance of the small things.
25. A single domino is capable of bringing down another domino one-and-a-half-times bigger than it is.
26. Instead of mountain moving faith, we need seed moving faith.
27. Redefine excellence. So often we define excellence as the church’s we look up to.
28. We all watch what God is doing in another house and downplay what He’s doing in our house.
29. Excellence is doing the best you can with what you have.
30. Excellence and honor define us. We will always give people our very best.
31. The faithful find favor. Stay faithful to the vision and God will give the provision.
32. Why would God give us 2,000 people if we’re not being faithful with 200 people.
33. Are you developing leaders or are you acquiring followers?
34. Most of the time we throw in the towel just before we see the fruit of what we’re trying to accomplish.
35. Are you growing people?
36. Are you using people to grow the church or are you using the church to grow your people?
37. If we grow our people, God will grow our church.
38. Where are you asking God to do the miraculous where you are not willing to do the minimum?
39. We will never win battles if we don’t prepare our people.
40. Growing churches pray like crazy. They sweat the details.
41. Celebrate everything.
42. You’ll never get to a place where you say, “We have arrived!”
43. I began to lose the significance of ONE.
44. We can become workaholics in Jesus’s name and it looks stellar.
45. We want to be somewhere else but we have something to celebrate today.
46. We can become so addicted to growth we can forget it is about the ONE.
47. Never underestimate a lifetime of faithfulness.
48. If you don’t believe in God why do we have such tasty animals?
49. People want to be in environments of fun.
50. We’ve all been to life-draining.
51. You’re looking for the next strategy. I’m telling you to go home and have fun.

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