Yesterday, I have been dispatched by INJOY Stewardship Solutions to live blog Exponential 2018. The afternoon’s first session was from a leader who needs no introduction – North Point Community Church’s Andy Stanley.
Andy’s session was about not focusing on being a hero, but a hero-maker.
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Now onto, 22 Leadership Quotes From Andy Stanley with additional comments from Dave Ferguson and Albert Tate:
Dave Ferguson
- “83% of pastors in the 20’s and 30’s say planting churches is part of their mission and vision.”
- “Jesus was a hero-maker.”
- “My fruit grows on other people’s trees.”
Albert Tate – Lead Pastor Fellowship Morovia
- “You’ve got to learn to think differently.”
- “The trophy doesn’t go to the one who plants a church. The trophy goes to one who plants a church who plants a church who plants a church. There is a greater thing.”
- “If I’m going to be a leader who sees the wind in other people’s trees I have to repent over the arrogance of wanting to be the hero myself.”
- “You can spend 20 years in ministry doing a good thing and not done the better thing and missed the best thing God had for you.”
- “Some invitations land on my flesh and not on my heart.”
- “Are you living for your resume or are you living for your eulogy? Your eulogy is your legacy.”
Video Testimony
- A hero does not start out as a hero. The arch of the story dictates the hero did not begin that way.
- You can’t have a hero-journey without a hero-maker.
- The lone wolf hero gets tired and burnt out and eventually lose the people they wanted to save. They crash every time and forget what they were fighting for.
- Pastors should want to be Alfred, not Batman.
- All the things that grab us are the things that will destroy us if God is not in it.
- Many villians started out as good guys.
- It’s more heroic to be a hero maker than a hero.
Andy Stanley
- “Do you really want to put the generation coming behind of you ahead of you?”
- “It is safer and potentially more financial profitable for you if you don’t. Becoming a hero-maker will cost you.”
- “When you decide to shine the spotlight on other people you lose control.”
- “Very few of us have ever seen this done well. It’s not like we’re following some lead.”
- “If you were better than the lead pastor they just called you rebellious.”
- “If you live for yourself, lead for yourself, in the end you will have nothing to show for yourself but yourself.”
- “The value of a life is always measured by how much of it was given away.”
- “It is not intuitive away to give your life, your leadership, and your opportunities away.”
- “If you don’t, your impact will be no bigger than you.”
- “When you think about the strange pastors, you know they are not multipliers. If you are not multiplying, you are like a blockage in your bowel system.”
- “All strange people hang around together. That’s why they don’t know they’re strange.”
- “If you’re not a hero-making, you may not pay professionally. You may pay personally… Your children will become confronted with your fear. And your children will know you are strange.”
- “Not so with you.”
- “When you think of great leaders, you don’t think about what they accomplished. You think about what they accomplished for you.”
- “If you replace yourself you will always have a place.”
- “I’m here to facilitate your success regardless of where our names appear on an org chart.”
- “The person with the most resources has the most opportunities to do things for the most people.”
- “If everybody’s essential, everybody’s essential.”
- “Ask the people in your organization this question, ‘What can I do to help?’”
- “There’s hardly anything uglier than a detached body part.”
- “My Savior got very, very, very small when He got under my sin.”
- “Next time you think you’re a big shot, just wash more feet.”
What an amazing session!
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