Catalyst ’16 Labs – 29 Leadership Quotes From Reggie Joiner

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 Uncommon Fellowship.

The Wednesday sessions consisted of Catalyst Labs.  The afternoon’s first speaker was Reggie Joiner.  Reggie is the founder and CEO of Orange, a nonprofit organization providing resources and training to help churches maximize their influence on the spiritual growth of the next generation.  He is also the author of the new book A New Kind Of Leader: What You Believe Can Open A Door For A Kid Or Teenager’s Future.

Also, as a special gift to everyone reading these posts, INJOY Stewardship would like to invest in your leadership by inviting you to a FREE Thursday October 13th online event entitled “How To Overcome The Challenges Of Leading A Growing Church.”  Click HERE or on the image below to sign up.

The following are 29 Leadership Quotes and Lessons from Reggie Joiner’s incredible session:

1. All of us are here because some one showed up along the way.
2. Your best chance to have influence in someone’s life is to just show up.
3. Leadership is meaning having a level of influence.
4. When you establish a habit of showing up for others, it may change you more than it does them.
5. Something happens to people when they get involved in the lives of others.
6. Your choice is to start growing or stop growing. How you influence others will directly influence how you grow.
7. If you want to have influence as a leader you have to change how you think about influence.
8. Stop arguing about what Jesus said and focus on what Jesus did.
9. Influence has to be earned.
10. If you’re going to have influence it’s not going to be because you’re in charge.
11. If you want to have influence as a leader you have to change how you think about people.
12. They need to know what matters to them matters to you.
13. If your theology is not changing the way you treat people you have a bad theology.
14. Empathy can be developed.
15. Empathy means sometimes you have to pause before you say something.
16. Empathy is the ability to press pause on your thoughts and feelings long enough to explore someone else’s thoughts and feelings.
17. You have the ability to imagine what someone else feels like.
18. When you understand what is going on in someone else’s world it changes the story.
19. One of the most powerful things we can do to build a bridge to the next generation is to listen.
20. Maybe if we should tell people how to build a church we should build one.
21. Empathy doesn’t water down the truth. It amplifies the truth. Where there is no empathy you forfeit your right to tell the truth.
22. 92% of teenagers are online daily.
23. You only get empathy by pausing to listen or pausing to interact.
24. The model for empathy is Jesus Christ.
25. He wanted a relationship based on love not control.
26. Jesus doesn’t push His way into anyone’s life. You must open the door from the inside.
27. If you open the door to Jesus, you are deciding to be a person with an open door philosophy.
28. You’ve bought into a philosophy to be a door opener.
29. When you open a door to Jesus, you open a door to wherever He takes you.

Next up is Brad Lomenick.  Be sure to check back for more leadership insights throughout the day.

On Thursday October 13th, INJOY Stewardship Solutions is hosting an online event entitled, “How To Overcome The Challenges Of Leading A Growing Church”.  You will able to learn church growth lessons from experience pastors like Shawn Lovejoy, Marty Schmidt, Josh Pennington, Mike Linch and Jeff Maness himself.  Click HERE or on the images provided to sign up.