Live Blog From The Orange Conference – 54 Leadership Quotes From Andy Stanley

This week 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.

This morning we are privileged to enjoy today’s opening session at the Orange Conference conducted by none other than Andy Stanley, senior pastor of North Point Community 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 following are 54 leadership quotes I captured during Andy’s session:

1. Reggie and Debbie Joiner are such the real deal.
2. I’ve never met a person more committed to the future of the local church and the next generation.
3. I am more excited about the local church than I’ve been in my life.
4. The church really is the hope of the world.
5. Treat people the way you would want to be treated and Fear not pretty much covers everything.
6. I’ve had a very blessed life.
7. The church saved my life.
8. I was afraid of sin. There is a healthy fear of sin.
9. The church didn’t just save me from hell. The church saved me from me.
10. The church and the influence of the church prevented me of having to experience pain.
11. You are preventing more than you can ever imagine in students.
12. The church informed my conscience in my formative years.
13. You dare not live with bitterness because bitterness will destroy. It was the church where I learned to forgive.
14. It was in the church where I learned purity paves the way to intimacy.
15. It was in the church where I learned friendship.
16. The church instilled in me a sense of purpose.
17. God has a plan for your life. Do not settle for second best.
18. I was created on purpose for a purpose.
19. Don’t allow the mundane to pull your eyes down to your current circumstances.
20. My first journal entry in the 11^th grade was “If I ever have a son I’m going to tell him God has a plan for his life. This has guided me through some of my greatest temptations.”
21. If you know God has a purpose for your life, you will make better decisions.
22. The church provided the context for lifelong friendships.
23. You are connecting many kids who will be friends for life.
24. You’re not just dealing in content. You’re dealing in relationship.
25. When kids connect to one another, they want to go to church.
26. When kids connect to a small group leader, they want to go to church.
27. We are all acceptance magnets. We do not necessarily gravitate to environments of great content.
28. Don’t attend a church that teaches your children to hate church.
29. The church served as a window into God’s activity all over the world.
30. How is it that people with less stuff have so much more faith and so much more joy?
31. The church reminds us we’re not the only people on the planet.
32. The church taught me how to be generous.
33. I’ve never lived on a 100% of my income ever.
34. Rich people aren’t generous. Generous people are generous. Generosity can be learned and generosity can be taught.
35. You were introduced to generosity in the local church.
36. Following Jesus will make your life better and will make you better at life.
37. Where else but the local church are channeled into following Jesus.
38. I love inviting people to follow Jesus before they believe.
39. They will then come to the conclusion that He is the Son of God.
40. The church provides the strongest argument for the dignity of individuals and for human rights.
41. The world gives people ascribed value. The church teaches people have intrinsic value.
42. The message of Christianity is everyone has value.
43. The church is the steward of the message everyone has intrinsic value because everyone is made in the image of God.
44. Jesus brought dignity to women.
45. The church inspires us to embrace the one mandate that could change everything.
46. The government is not designed to inspire us to greatness.
47. The government is designed to protect us from the worst possible things.
48. Nobody cares how many planes landed safely at Hartsfield.
49. It’s our fault the media is so negative. We all slow down when we drive by an accident. We are fascinated by the negative.
50. Public education has become a values-free zone.
51. Who inspires us beyond the letter of the law?
52. The one thing that will change everything is love your neighbor. Whose message was that?
53. Every weekend you show up, you save lives by the prevention of the Gospel.
54. Outside of your family, the greatest investment you will ever make is in the local church.

What an incredible way to start the day.  Up next we are back to the ReThink Conference.

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.