Live Blog: That Church Conference – 34 Leadership Quotes From Tim Schraeder

In an effort to add value to pastors and church leaders, INJOY Stewardship Solutions has dispatched me to attend the That Church Conference.  Today, I will be bringing the top leadership lessons from some of the greatest social media minds in Christianity.

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The morning’s final session was conducted by Tim Schraeder, Social Media Director of Willow Creek Church.

The following are 34 Leadership Quotes from Tim Schraeder from the That Church Conference:

1. The church should be the most creative place on the planet.
2. In an urban demographic, young people are running away from church, not running to it.
3. God can do anything if you’re willing and humble.
4. Marketing is influencing behavior to get more people to buy more stuff, more often, for more money. – 1950’s definition
5. Marketing is everything your organization does. – Today’s definition
6. People don’t trust marketing anymore.
7. Whoever has the best story wins.
8. Good marketing is about telling an incredible story.
9. It’s more about the story a products/service helps you tell vs. what it actually does.
10. Great brands aim for people’s hearts, not their wallets.
11. Answer questions people are asking.
12. Social media has leveled the playing field.
13. Micro is greater than mass.
14. Digital marketing is better than traditional.
15. Marketing is about storytelling and storytelling is central to the Gospel.
16. When it comes to marketing less is more.
17. Church marketing has traditionally said, “Come to us.” Jesus said, “Go to them.”
18. The biggest hindrance to people attending church is busyness. Our competition is not the other church. It is for people’s attention.
19. “Attention is the asset of the future.” – @GaryVee
20. God’s invitation is to everyone, everywhere and we need to extend it wherever we go.
21. The call to be witnesses is as much online as offline.
22. The most effective means of marketing your church is in your seats every single weekend.
23. The most effective thing to bring people into your church is the people in your church right now.
24. Make everything you do sharable.
25. We are living in the middle of a revolution.
26. What the printing press did for Luther, smartphones will do for the generation in the church.
27. We’ve never been more equipped to communicate the Gospel than today.
28. Evangelism in the digital age is more about how we live our lives out online than what we say or do.
29. Churches who don’t engage in social media will be left out of the conversation.
30. No one knows why anything goes viral.
31. Use online connections to foster offline community.
32. Programs don’t connect people. People do.
33. All of our efforts is for life transformation. People going public with their faith.
34. Our world is in desperate need of good news.

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