Catalyst ’15 – 34 Leadership Quotes From Trip Lee

As a member of the Catalyst Blog Team and INJOY Stewardship Solutions, I will be bringing you live updates from the much anticipated Catalyst Conference in Atlanta, GA.  The theme for this year’s conference is Awaken The Wonder.

The afternoon’s first speaker was pastor, author and rapper Trip Lee.  The following are 34 Leadership Quotes and Lessons from his  great session.

Also, before reading, make sure you check out the announcement from INJOY Stewardship Solutions shown below about a FREE webinar on October 13th for churches needing to raise capital in 2016.  Now onto her thoughts along with some additional comments from Scott Harrison, CEO of Charity Water:

Scott Harrison – CEO of Charity Water

1. We have to create awareness and care about an issue that affects no one in this room.
2. You can approach this through facts. 663 million because of where they’re born don’t have clean water. Bad water kills more people than war. 56% of all disease in the world is because of bad water.
3. Statistics don’t move people.  Stories do.
4. 13-year-old girls should not hang from trees.
5. We are stirred by stories. Jesus was the master storyteller. The thing we remember are the stories.
6. I decided no 13-year-old girl should be drinking water from swamps in a world where people were paying $10 for a bottle of water in nightclubs.
7. We truly believe we can end the water crisis in our time.

Trip Lee 

1. If we are going to be faithful disciples and leaders, music must be part of our strategy.
2. To ignore music is to accept unfaithfulness.
3. Music can capture our attention and hearts like nothing else can.
4. What is this sound that God has given us?
5. Music was like a soundtrack to the movie of my life.
6. Music told me how to feel about things.
7. Our culture is obsessed with music and it is a good thing.
8. God created music and commanded us to sing.
9. We should use music to celebrate God.
10. The problem wasn’t I didn’t like praise music. The problem was I didn’t like the object of their praise.
11. We stand before God’s wonder and we stand disinterested and bored.
12. There has never been a more loving act of deliverance than Jesus dying on the cross and that deserves our praise.
13. May we use music to marvel and praise God.
14. It is good for the world to hear us praise Jesus.
15. We want to use music to express pain and frustration.
16. Not all songs are praise songs.
17. The songs I have written from pain and grief are the ones which have connected with people the most.
18. We do not have a cold dead Bible.
19. What is sinful about groaning and complaining is when you put God’s character on trial.
20. Some people don’t like Christians because we act things are good all the time.
21. If you listen to some of our music, you would never know the fall ever happened.
22. You can acknowledge life is hard without pulling God off His throne.
23. We do not have a God who is too weak to deal with our pain and brokenness. In fact, He told us to bring it to Him.
24. Use music to teach and encourage.
25. We can be encouraged by music. Buy good music that encourages your soul.
26. Often they will not remember your sermon, but they will be able to remember those songs which stick with us so easily.
27. Use your music to call for justice.
28. Music can go places preaching can’t go.
29. Use your music to tear down our culture’s idols.
30. Use music to interact with a wider culture.
31. I want to write music that tells how much I love my wife and my kids.
32. Use music that gives us an accurate view of Christians.
33. Use music for your joy.
34. Music it going to be part of your life no matter what. Are you going to use music that awakens wonder in the One True God.

More leadership insights to come throughout the day.  And do not forget to join our team at INJOY Stewardship Solutions on October 13th for a session entitled How One Capital Campaign Raised Over $10 Billion.  It will be a fun hour of equipping and training.  Click HERE or on the image below to register today.