Live Blog From ReThink Conference – 12 Leadership Quotes From Kara Powell

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 How To Raise Big Money For Big Projects by clicking HERE for your complimentary copy.

The first day’s final speaker was Dr. Kara Powell.  She is the Executive Director of the Fuller Youth Institute (FYI) and a faculty member at Fuller Theological Seminary. Named by Christianity Today as one of 50 Women to Watch.  The following are 12 leadership quotes from her enlightening  session along with comments from two other speakers:

Kara Powell

1. Culture eats strategy for breakfast. – Peter Drucker
2. Leadership culture eats strategy for breakfast.
3. It’s not about hip leadership culture. Pastors, we can put together our skinny jeans.
4. Keychain Leadership Culture – You have keys – power, access, ability. As you hand them over, your church will flourish.
5. Churches doing great work with young people are handing keys to all generations.
6. Reciprocal learning – if you see me doing something wrong, I want you to tell me.
7. “Think of me as a fellow patient, who having being admitted a little earlier, could give some advice.” – C.S. Lewis
8. I’m here today because someone handed the keys over to me.
9. In our churches today we think small and we live scared.
10. Young people give our church more vitality, innovation, passion, and even more money. They may not have money but their parents do.
11. The enthusiasm of young people is not your church’s problem. It is your church’s solution.
12. What revolution is waiting in church as you hand over keys to young people who are ready for them?

Chris Conlee – Pastor of HighPoint Church in Memphis

1. We exist to prove love works.
2. #LoveWorks because everyone wants love to work.
3. We are reinforcing the way God loves works.
4. We are giving people a story they love to tell.
5. You have to have a vision caster. But you have to create vision carriers.
6. Nothing influences culture more than storytelling. Once you tell the story the culture recreates itself.
7. I can’t care about everything equally.
8. When certain problems arise, we have to learn to listen first.

Danielle Strickland – officer with the Salvation Army

1. “To banish wickedness from the Earth” – William Booth, founder of Salvation Army on its purpose
2. We’re all after a better story.
3. Simple is not easy.
4. You call people by the name they introduce themselves as.
5. The thing we know best is often the thing that gets in the way most.
6. People were born to be free and they’re not.
7. If exploitation can get to our girls, why can’t redemption?
8. 80% of sex trafficking victims in America are from foster care.

Yesterday was incredible!  I can’t wait for tomorrow.  Check back for more notes.

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