Live Blog From ReThink Conference – 13 Leadership Quotes From Geoff Surratt

For the next three days, I will be live blogging from the ReThink Leadership Conference in Atlanta, GA.  ReThink, open exclusively to senior pastors, campus pastors and executive pastors, is a unique gathering of church leaders who are committed to solving the biggest challenges facing your church and the Church.

Injoy Stewardship Solutions has dispatched me to attend this amazing event as a way to invest in your growth.  They also want to invest in your leadership by offering you our latest FREE ebook Breaking The Next Growth Barrier: 10 Things Pastors Can Do To Break Down Growth Barriers by clicking HERE for your complimentary copy.

The afternoon’s first speaker was Geoff Surratt has served on staff at Seacoast Church and Saddleback Church. He now serves as pastor of church planting at Southeast Christian Church in Parker, Colorado, as well as coaching churches and leaders around the country.

The following are 13 leadership quotes I captured during his great session:

1. We’re moving into a territory where people can’t tell us what to do. We’re moving into a post-church America.
2. There are churches that are winning with millennials.
3. We have to be more transparent.
4. They want to know if you, the pastor, are the real deal.
5. Churches winning with millennials are doing an incredible job with collaboration.
6. The millennials don’t just want to know what’s going on. They want to be deciding what’s going on.
7. In an environment where failure is not an option, failure is always an option. Failure should be a requirement.
8. Churches winning with millennials have figured out mission a different way.
9. Short terms missions – vacation with a purpose.
10. Some millennials are about social justice because they clicked like on their Facebook page.
11. Churches winning with millennials have learned to live with the mess.
12. The Bible says, “Do not be weary in well doing because in the right moment, God will bring the harvest.”
13. We’re just getting started. The future of the church is incredible.

Up next is Josh Gagnon.

As previously mentioned, INJOY Stewardship Solutions would like to offer you the FREE resource Breaking The Next Growth Barrier: 10 Things Pastors Can Do To Break Down Growth Barriers.  Click HERE or on the image to the left for your complimentary copy.