Live Blog From ReThink Conference – 42 Leadership Quotes From Brad Lomenick And Carey Nieuwhof

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 afternoon’s breakout session speakers was a Q&A with Brad Lomenick and Carey Nieuwhof.  Brad was the former head of Catalyst and author of H3 Leadership: Be Hungry. Stay Humble. Always Hustle.  He is generally considered one of the world’s most influential leaders.  Just in case you missed Carey’s opening session, click ReThink Conference 2017 – 20 Leadership Quotes From Carey Nieuwhof.

Here are their 42 leadership lessons:

1. The age of the boss is done. The leaders today who are making the most difference are the aggregators. They have a conductor mindset. – BL
2. The top CEOs in America where are they getting their leadership information? A lot are getting their content from 40-50 people who are aggregating information in the digital landscape who are putting it in consumable content. – BL
3. We are shifting from the rock star with the platform, now the rock star is handing the microphone or offstage curating the content. – BL
4. I was taught the unchurched people wanted conversation. Now they want emotional preaching. – Jud Wilhite
5. The problem with preaching is its polarization…Great preaching is intellectual and emotional. – Ravi Zacharius
6. Unchurched people don’t mind passion. – CN
7. What if we fused emotional and intellectual preaching? – CN
8. Build a platform that other people can stand on. – BL
9. If you’re truly elevating other people, especially with young leaders, you will actually win. – BL
10. Small connected, conversational and communal-driven gatherings are now what people want to be a part of. – BL
11. If your church is small, all of a sudden your church is winning based upon what the culture wants. – BL
12. When something is big, our trust factor goes down. When something is small and specialized for us, we trust it more. – BL
13. Everyone wants to be known where they walk in. – BL
14. Information is everywhere. The world has never had more information and less meaning. – CN
15. You see people who know everything and understand nothing. – CN
16. Millennials don’t work for you. They work for themselves. – CN
17. Showing up at a certain time and leaving at a certain time is dying in our culture. – CN
18. One day we’re going to tell our kids and grandchildren, ‘There was once a time when people went to a building to work.’ – CN
19. Isn’t that the job of a theologian, to broker meaning? – CN
20. Content is a commodity. So what is the distinctive for our churches – connection, conversation and community. – BL
21. They’re gathering for the content. They’re coming back because of the connection. – BL
22. They’re (the people in your church) watching who they want to watch. – CN
23. You want people to be loyal to a mission. – CN
24. I want to help them (the next generation) win. – CN
25. If you are going to recruit top talent, raise the ceiling. – CN
26. The question most people ask is, ‘Is my boss committed to my success.’ – CN
27. Control is dead. – CN
28. I’m a consumer of content. I’m constantly curious and I like people who help me find it. – BL
29. There are people who lead everyday at work and in the home. That is a leader. A leader is someone who steps into a vacuum and makes something happen. – CN
30. Get financial disclosure if you are the senior leader. – CN
31. If you tell people you’re generous, you’re probably not on a church giving list. – CN
32. Your highest capacity people are almost always waiting to be asked. – CN
33. No shuffleboard for the 4^th quarter guys in your church. – BL
34. When you have a larger church, the harder it is to get someone on the platform because you have more at stake. – CN
35. You have to enforce intentional conversations (among the different generations in your church). – BL
36. I am amazed at how much 20-somethings want mentoring. – CN
37. The highest growth rate on my podcast is young leaders. The highest growth in my church is families under 35. – CN
38. Information and knowledge used to flow from old to young. Now it flows from young to old. – BL
39. Wisdom comes with humility. It is a companion with humility. – CN
40. A fifty-year-old in a room with twenty-year-olds is irrelevant unless you’re humble. – CN
41. There is a death of conversation. We don’t talk with each other anymore. We talk at each other. – CN
42. Everybody is waiting for the superstar mentor. Mentoring doesn’t work that way. – CN

What an amazing session from two great leaders.  I can’t wait for the afternoon sessions.

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